The Indian Journal of Social Work March 1944

There was considerable change for the good in the attitude of both the mother and the grandmother towards the child. [...] Still the unrepealed sections left it to the dicretion of the magistrate in the matter of sending a boy under 15 or 16 years to prison ; but the officer of the prison was given the authority to place.a child whom he thought fit before the magistrate for being_ transferred to a reformatory for a period ranging between 2 and 7 years. [...] The Government of Sind applied the provisions of the Bombay Children Act to the province of Sind in 1938. [...] On the day of hearing the child is brought into the juvenile court and the case is heard and decided in accordance with the provisions of the Children Act. [...] It is provided : No police officer shall however detain in custody any such person for a longer period than is reasonable under all the circumstances of the"HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE JUVENILE COURT tl case ; and such period shall not in the absence of ; special order of a court exceed twenty-four hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court.