law: Children Act, 1960
  13. Production of neglected children before Boards
  (1) If any police
  
  officer or any other person authorized by the Administrator in this behalf, by
  
  general or special order, is of opinion that a person is apparently a neglected
  
  child, such police officer or other person may take charge of that person for
  
  bringing him before a Board.
  (2) When information
  
  is given to an officer-in-charge of a police station about any neglected child
  
  found within the limits of such station, he shall enter in a book to be kept
  
  for the purpose the substance of such information and take such action thereon
  
  as he deems fit and if such officer does not propose to take charge of the
  
  child, he shall forward a copy of the entry made to the Board.
  (3) Every child taken
  
  charge of under sub-section (1) shall be brought before the Board within a
  
  period of twenty-four hours of such charge taken excluding the time necessary
  
  for the journey from the place where the child had been taken charge of to the
  
  Board.
  (4) Every child taken
  
  charge of under sub-section (1) shall, unless he is kept with his parent or
  
  guardian, be sent to an observation home (but not to a police station or jail)
  
  until he can be brought before a Board.