Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act : Provision in respect of escaped juvenile.

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act,2000

Act No : 56

Section : Provision in respect of escaped juvenile.

22. Provision in respect of escaped juvenile.-Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force, any police officer may take charge without warrant of a juvenile in conflict with law who has escaped from a sp cial home or an observation home or from the care of a person under whom he was placed under this Act, and shall be sent back to the special home or the observation home or that person, as the case may be; and no proceeding shall be instituted in respec of the juvenile by reason of such escape, but the special home, or the observation home or the person may, after giving the information to the Board which passed the order in respect of the juvenile, take such steps in respect of the juvenile as may be eemed necessary under the provisions of this Act.