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(1) Any police officer or other person authorised by the State Government in this behalf may, if . there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person is a neglected child, take that child into custody for bringing him before a Court. The West Bengal Children Act, 1959. 11 XXX of 1959.] (Chapter 1-V.—Neglected Children.— Sections 30, 31.) (2) Every child taken into custody under sub-section (1) shall be brought before a Court within a period of twenty- four hours of such taking into custody excluding the time necessary for the journey to the Court from the place where the child has been taken into custody. Procedure to be followed when neglected child has e. parent or guardian.