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(1) The Provincial Government may by order in respect of any repatriated prisoner who, immediately before repatriation, was held under arrest or detention in police custody during or after completion of a police investigation, specify a Short title,extent and commencement. Definitions. Custody and removal or repatriated prisoner. Convicted a prisoners. Prisoners undergoing trial before repatriation. V of 1898. I of 1872. I of 1872. Prisoners repatriated while in police custody. Bombay Repatriated prisoners Act,1949 1949 : Bom . XXVII] Presidency Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class, as the case may be, who shall have and exercised jurisdiction for the purposes of this section. (2) Every repatriated prisoner in respect of whom an order has been made under sub-section (1) shall be produced without delay before the Magistrate specified in the order and such Magistrate may take cognizance of any offence that such repatriated prisoner may be reported by a police officer to have committed and may grant him bail. (3) Where the repatriation was effected before completion of the police investigation or the Magistrate is of the opinion that the evidence is deficient, the repatriated prisoner shall be released upon his entering into a bond, with or without sureties, as the Magistrate may direct, to appear if and when so required, and in the meantime the Magistrate may order such further enquiry into the substance of the allegations as he thinks fit. (4) In every case falling under sub-section (3), the Magistrate may, if he is satisfied at any stage that there is no prospect of securing sufficient evidence to justify commencement of proceedings against the repatriated prisoner, direct that such prisoner be discharged from his bond.