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{.13 When a person apparently under the age of eighteen year ‘1 is arrested for a non-baiiabie offence and cannot be bretight forthw‘it L, before a court, the officer in charge of the police station to whic f; such person is brought may in any case and shall unless the offence i"; one of culpable homicide or is an offence punishable with death: or transportation, release him on bail ?_f suficient security is forth-g coming unless, for reasons to be recorded in Writing, the officer believes,- that such releaSe would being him into asweiation with any reputed} criminal or expose him to moral danger or that his release would defeat: the ends of justice: ‘ Provided that Where a girl apgarenriy under the age of sixteeni year; is arrested the officer in charge of a police Station who has made the arreit or before whom the giri-is brought shall release»; her at once if any person Who is a relative of the girl or a societylz or institution of the same religious persuasion as the girl, who ini’ such sum of money as the officer considers suflicient to produce her before the court or to appear in’ her stead If required at the Police Station. (2) For the purpose _of this section the expression "relative” means parents, grand parents,brothers, Sisters, uncies, aunts and first? cousins.