(1) The State Government may, in accordance with such rules as may be made in this behalf, establish or recognise after-care organisations for the welfare, training and social and economic rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents and other children discharged from reformatory, industrial or borstal schools.
The West Bengal Children Act, 1959. 7 XXX of 1959.]
(Chapter I I .—Courts and certain institutions under this Act.— Section 21.—Chapter I I I.—Juvenile delinquents.—Section 22.)
(2) The powers and duties of after-care organisations established or recognised under sub-section (I) shall be such as may be prescribed.
2t. (1) The State Government may appoint as many Probation Officers as it may think fit to visit juvenile delinquents and other children taken charge of—
(i) by after-care organisations established or recognised under section 20, or
(ii) by parents, guardians or other persons, having been temporarily released from reformatory, industrial or borstal schools on probation On the execution of bonds or otherwise, and to report to the State Government as to the conduct of such juvenile delinquents and other children and the circumstances in which they live.
(2) The Probation Officers appointed under sub-section (1) shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed.
Probation officers.
Bail and custody of children pending inquiry.
CHAPTER III.
Juvenile delinquents.