Action by police regarding escaped children.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law for the time being in force, any police officer may arrest without a warrant a child who has escaped from a children‟s home, certified school or a fit person institution or from the supervision of a society or a person under whose supervision he was directed to remain and shall send the child back to the home, school, institution, society or the person without registering any offence or prosecuting the child and the said child shall not be deemed to have committed any offence by reason of such escape, but he shall be dealt with by the authorities of the home, school, institution or society or the person concerned in such manner as they think fit, provided such authorities or person shall at the same time inform the action taken to the competent authority from which the child was originally sent.