(l) The [Deputy Commissioner]r shall appoint such Village persons as he considers to be the mernbers of a village authority authority' for such village or villages as he may specify, and may modify orcancel any such order of appointment, and may dismiss any person so appointed.
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7. Every Civil Police station shall be under the control of the [Deputy Commissioner]r but its administration with regard ta the pay, allowances, clothing,transfer and discipline of the staff shall be vested in the Superintendent of Police of the District which fumished the staff or such other police officer as the Govemment may appoint in this behalf, provided that transfer shall be made in consultation with the [Deputy Commissioner.l'
8. On the commissioner of any heinous offence with in theirjurisdiction, the inhabitants ofthe village shall at once, if possible apprehend the offender and in any case shall at once inform the village authority, who if the offender has not been apprenhended shall procecd without delay to the place where the offence was committed and enquire into it.
9. [t shall be the duty ofthe village authorities to repon to the IDeputy Commissioner]r,IAssistant Commissioner]r as soon as possible all crimes, violent deaths, and serious accidents occuring within theirjurisdiction, and all occurences whether within or beyond theirjurisdiction, which may come to their krowledge and which are likely to affect the public peace: and to arest and deliver up olTenders as soon as may be [within a period oftwenty four houn of such arrest excluding ihe time necessary for thejourney from the place ofarrestl3 to the coun having jurisdictioo to try them.
10. A village authority may pursue beyond their jLrrisdiction any olTender or vagranl or bad or suspicious charactcr whom thcy consiedq it necessary to apprehend under thc plovisions of sub-section (3) of section 6. They shall not. horveYer, ordinirily arrest the offender or such person \\'ithour inlorming the village authority within whose juristliction he is found and inviting their assistance but may do so il thcre is a reasonable apprehension that hc may r)ther$ isc escape.
I 1. \\ihen a village authority is unable to arrest an offender;
thcy lllay apply to the lDeputy Commissionerl'or an,[Assistant C omnissioner]2 or any officer empowered to make arrests. for r\\i\lance
1. Substituted for 'Political Officer' by NEFA (Admn) Regulation 1965.
2. Substituted for 'Assistant Politicat Oli'icer' by NEFA (Admn) Regulation, I965 -.I. Insened by AIO, 195{).
Control of Police.
Occurence of heinous offence.
Reports by village authority.
pursuit and arrest of offeoders.
procedure when arrest is impossible.
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