Every village headman and village watchman is bound forthwith to communicate to the officer in charge of the police station within the limits of which his village or beat is situated, any information he may obtain respecting any person found lurking in such village or beat who has no ostensible means of subsistence, or who cannot give satisfactory account of himself or respecting the residence in or resort to any place within the limits of such village or beat of any person who is a reputed housebreaker or thief, or who is of notoriously bad livelihood.
