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Section 13: Powers and duties of police in respect of wandering or dangerous lunatics or lunatics cruelly treated or not wider proper care and control

Indian Lunacy Act 1912Union territory Act of Chandigarh · Act 4 of 1912

(1) Every officer in charge of a police-station may arrest or cause to be arrested all persons found wandering at large within the limits of his station whom he has reason to believe to be lunatics and shall arrest or cause to be arrested all persons within the limits of his station whom be has reason to believe to be dangerous by reason of lunacy. Any person so arrested shall be taken forthwith before the Magistrate.

(2) Every officer in charge of a police-station who has reason to believe that any person within the limits of his station is deemed to be a lunatic and is not under proper care and control or is cruelly treated or neglected by any relative or other person having the charge of him, shall immediately report the fact to the Magistrate.

Where this provision sits

ActIndian Lunacy Act 1912
Section13
Marginal notePowers and duties of police in respect of wandering or dangerous lunatics or lunatics cruelly treated or not wider proper care and control
JurisdictionUnion territory of Chandigarh
StatusIn force as published by the source
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