(1) Where person who is apparently a child, is arrested or detained or appears or is brought before a juvenile court, on a charge of a bailable or non-bailable offence, such person shall, notwithstanding anything in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, or in any other law for the time Victimised child to be sent to competent authority.
Employment of children for begging.
Offences under the chapter cognizable.
Bail and custody of children arrested.
Central Act 2 of 1974.
[Act No.26 of 1979] 29 being in force, be released on bail with or without sureties, but he shall not be so released if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the release is likely to bring him into association with any notorious criminal or expose him to moral danger or where his release would defeat the ends of justice.
(2) When such person having been arrested is not released on bail under sub-section (1), the officer-in-charge of the police station shall keep the child arrested by him in a place of a safety, not being a police station and shall produce him before the juvenile court or the nearest magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of his arrest, excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court or the magistrate.
(3) Where such person is not released on bail under sub-section (1) by the juvenile court, it shall instead of committing him to prison, make an order sending him to an observation home for such period during the pendency of the enquiry regarding him as may be specified in the order.
63. Where a child is arrested, the officer-in-charge of the police station to which the child is brought shall, as soon as may be, after the arrest inform–
(a) the parent or guardian of the child, if he can be found on such arrest and direct him to be present at the juvenile court before which the child will appear; and
(b) the probation officer and the officer-in-charge of an observation home, of such arrest in order to enable the probation officer and the officer-in-charge of the observation home to proceed forthwith to obtain information regarding the antecedents and family history of the child and other material circumstances likely to assist the competent court in making the inquiry regarding the child.
Information to parent or guardian or probation officer.
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64. Where a child having been charged with an offence appears or is produced before a juvenile court, the court shall hold the inquiry in accordance with the provisions of section 12.