law: Indian Forest Act, 1927
  65. 
  
  Power to release on a bond a person arrested.  –
  Any Forest-officer of a rank not inferior to that
  
  of a Ranger, who, or whose subordinate, has arrested any person under the
  
  provisions of section 64, may release such person on his executing a bond to
  
  appear, if and when so required, before the Magistrate having jurisdiction in
  
  the case, or before the officer in charge of the nearest police station.