ABI Act 6

Section 6 · Power of Superintendent of Prison to present adolescent offender before Sessions Judge for detention

- Whenever it appears or is represented to the Superintendent of Prison that any adolescent offender confined to the prison should, for the reasons mentioned in sub-section (3) of Section 5, be detained, he shall send a report to this effect to and cause the adolescent offender to be produced before the Sessions Judge of the Sessions Division in which the prison is situated and if the Sessions Judge after making such enquiry as may be prescribed and such further inquiry as he may consider necessary is satisfied that the adolescent offender should, for the reasons mentioned in the said sub-section be detained, he may order the adolescent offender to be removed from the prison and detained for a period equal to the unexpired term of the imprisonment to which he was sentenced for equal to the unexpired portion of the period for which he was required to give security, as the case may be :Provided that in no case he shall be detained for five years.

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