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Any person who fraudulently retains, or wilfully secretes or keeps, or detains, or who, when required by an officer of the Post Office, neglects or refuses to deliver up—
(a)any postal packet which is in course of transmission by post and which ought to have been delivered to any other person ; or
(b)any postal packet in course of transmission by post or any mail bag which has been found by him or by any other person,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and be liable to a fine and to imprisonment.
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