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( 1) When any person accused of a bailable or custodv of non-bailable offence and apparently a child is arrested children. .or detained or appears or is brought before a Children's Court, such person shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, or in any other law for the 5 of 1898 time being in force, be released on bail 'A-ith or with- out surety but he shall not be so released if there appears reasonable grounfls for believing that the release is likely to bring him into association with any reputed criminal or expose him to moral danger or that his release would defeat the ends of justice. (2) When such person having been arrested is not released on bail under sub-section (I ) by the Officer-in-charge of tht> Police Station, such officer shall cause him to be kept in an Observation Home in the prescribed manner (fiut not in a P.olice Station or Jail) until he ran be brought before a Children's Oourte (3) When such person is not released on bail under sub-section (I) by the Children's 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 inquiry regarding him as may be ~pecified in the order. Informa.