law: Hire-Purchase Act, 1972
  16. Obligation of the hirer to give information
  
  as to whereabouts of goods.-
  (1) Where by virtue of a hire-purchase
  
  agreement a hirer is under a duty to keep in his possession or control the
  
  goods to which the agreement relates, the hirer shall, on receipt of a request in
  
  writing from the owner, inform the owner where the goods are at the time of a
  
  request in writing from the owner, inform the owner where the goods are at the
  
  time when the information is given or, if it is sent by post, at the time of
  
  posting.
  If the hirer fails without reasonable cause to
  
  give said information within fourteen days of the receipt of the notice, he
  
  shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.