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{1) If any police officer or any other person authorised by at in this behalf, by general or special order, is of the State Governnse , tested ‘chiid, such police officer, ' opinion that a person is apparently a neg take charge of that petson for bringing him: or other person, may V before a V juvenile court. ' (2) When information is given to an officer in-charge of a police station about any neglected child found within the limits of such} station, he shall enter in a bookto be keptfor the purpose; the sub-3 ~stantie of such information and take such action thereon~ as he deems 5 fit‘and if'such officer does not propose to take charge of the child, he shall forward a copy of the entry made to the juvenile court. (3) Every child taken charge ‘of under sub-section (1) shall be brought before the juvenile court within a period of twenty fbnr hours of such charge taken excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place where the child had been taken charge of to the juvenile ‘court. (4) Every child taken charge of nude: sub-section (1) shall, unless he is_ kept with his parent or guardian, be sent to a remand home (but not a police station or jai1)unti1 he can be brought before a juvenile court. 3 4.’ (1) If a person, 'who in the opinion of the police officer or the authorised person is a neglected child, has a parent or guardian who has the actual charge of, or control over, the child, the police officer or the authorised person may, instead of taking charge of the child, make a report to the juVenile court for initiating an inquiry regarding that child. (2) ‘ On receipt of a report under sub-section (1), the juvenile court may call upon the parent or guardian to produce »the child before it and to show cause why the child should not be dealt with as a neglected child under the provisions of the Act and if it appears to the juvenile court that the child is likely to be removed from its jurisdiction or to be concealed, it may immediately order his removal (if necessary by issuing a search warrant for the immediate production of the child) to a remand home.