law: Children Act, 1960
  49. Provision in respect of escaped children
  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 child who has
  
  escaped from a 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 or the children's home or that person, as the case may be; and
  
  no proceeding shall be instituted in respect of the child by reason of such
  
  escape but the special school, children's home or the person may, after giving
  
  the information to the competent authority which passed the order in respect of
  
  the child, take such steps against the child as may be deemed necessary.