law: Children Act, 1960
  19. Information to parent or guardian or probation officer
  Where a child is
  
  arrested, the officer-in-charge of the police station to which the child is
  
  brought shall, as soon as may be after the arrest, inform-
  (a) the parent or guardian
  
  of the child, if he can be found, of such arrest and direct him to be present
  
  at the children’s court before which the child will appear; and
  (b) the probation
  
  officer of such arrest in order to enable him to obtain information regarding
  
  the antecedents and family history of the child and other material
  
  circumstances likely to be of assistance to the children's court for making the
  
  inquiry