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Power to arrest wtthout warrant.-( I) Any Forest Officer or Pohce Officer may, wtthout ordets from a MagiStrate and without a warrant, arrest any person reasonably suspected ofhavmg been concerned in any forest offence, If such person refuses to gtve his name and resi- dence, 01 gtves hts name 01 testdence whtch there IS reason to beheve to be false, or if there ts teason to beheve he wtll abscond. (2) Any person an ested uude1 this sectton shall be mformed, as soon as may be, of the grounds of atrest and shall forthwtth be taken or sent to the ncare~t Police Statwn and the Officer-m-charge of such StatiOn shall thereupon act according to Ia''