224. Duties of police in respect of wandering or dangerous lunatics. [§ 12, Act V, 1861].
(a)Police officers shall secure and send into the headquarters station of their districts all lunatics found wandering at large and believed to be dangerous. They shall not interfere with harmless lunatics or with dangerous lunatics of whom proper care is taken.(b)When a lunatic is sent up, a report in Bengal Form No. 216 shall accompany him.(c)Police officers shall report to the Magistrate all cases in which lunatics, who have been made over to their friends for care and treatment, are neglected or cruelly treated.
