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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force, any police officer may take charge, without a warrant a chiic‘ who has escaped from special school or a children’s home or from the care of a person under whom he Was placed under this Act, and shall send the .child‘ back to the special school 01' the children’s home or that person, as the case may be erso 11 >may, after giving the information to the coutt which paSsed the order in respect of the child, take such steps against the child as may be