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Section 20D of any person, he shall make such investigation as seems to him necessary, and shall either release such person or admit him to bail to appear, or if bail is not given, produce him or cause the officer-in-chage of the nearest police-station to produce him before a Magistrate having jurisdiction in the case :
Provided that if the investigation is not completed within twenty-four hours of the arrest, the said officer may take bail with or without security from the person arrested to appear on any subsequent date before himself and shall, if such bail is not given, forthwith forward the arrested person to the nearest Magistrate with a report of the case, and a request to detain him in custody for such period not exceeding fourteen days as may be necessary to complete the investigation and to order his production before the said officer when necessary for such investigation.
(4) The Magistrate to whom an arrested person is so forwarded, whether he has or has not jurisdiction to try the case, may, by order in writing stating the reasons therefor, authorize the detention of the arrested person in default of bail in such custody as he thinks fit for a term not exceeding fourteen days in the whole.
1) An officer empowered under