(1) On a report from the officer-in-charge of any institution that a person has left such institution in contravention of section 15, any police officer or such other officer as may be authorised by Government in this behalf, shall arrest such person without a warrant and inform him of the grounds for such arrest and remove him immediately to the institution which he had left.
(2) The officer-in-charge of the institution shall produce him before the Executive Magistrate or the Judicial Magistrate or the Metropolitan Magistrate having jurisdiction, within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of such magistrate and the magistrate shall, after satisfying himself that the said person has contravened the provisions of section 15, order him to be delivered to the institution with a warning.
(3) Any person dealt with under the provisions of sub-section (1), who absconds or takes to begging after he is discharged under section 15 shall be placed before a Judicial Magistrate, or Metropolitan Magistrate who after summary trial may convict him and sentence him to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months.