The village watchman shall take charge of all persons arrested by the village headman under the rules, or by any private person under the law for the time being in force, and shall forthwith take or send any person or persons so taken charge of by him or any person or persons he himself may arrest; before the officer in charge of the police station within the limits of which his beat is situated : provided that during the hours of darkness, the person or person arrested may be detained in custody at the village, but must be taken as early as possible on the following morning to the police station.
