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The document discusses begging laws in India. It defines begging according to the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act of 1959, which 22 states have adopted. The act considers begging to include soliciting alms in public or on private property, exhibiting injuries to obtain alms, having no means of subsistence, or allowing oneself to be used for exhibiting to receive alms. Police have the power to arrest beggars without a warrant. Those arrested are sent to certified institutions, and can face 1-3 years impriso

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