ROLE OF CITIZENS IN TACKLING CRIME

 Duty of officer employed in connection with the affairs of a village to make certain report- (1) Every officer employed in connection with the affairs of a village and every person residing in a village shall forthwith communicate to the nearest Magistrate or to the officer in charge to the nearest police station, whichever is nearer, any information which he may possess respecting-

(a)   the permanent or temporary residence of any notorious receiver or vendor of stolen property in or near such village:

(b)  the resort to any place with in ,or the passage through, such village of any person whom he knows, or reasonable suspects, to be a thug, robber, escaped convict or proclaimed offender:

(c)  the commission of or intention to commit, in or near such village any non bail able offence or any offence punishable under Section 143, Section 144, Section 145, Section 147,or Section 148of the Indian Penal Code (45of 1860):

(d)  the occurrence in or near such village of any sudden or unnatural death or of any death under suspicious  circumstance or the discovery in or near such village of any corps or part of a corps, in circumstance which lead to a reasonable suspicion that such a death has occurred  or the disappearance from such village of any person in circumstances which lead to a reasonable suspicion that a non-bailable offence has been committed in respect of such person:

(e)  the commission of, or intention to commit, at any place out of India near such village any act which, if committed in India ,would be an offence punishment under any of the following section of the Indian Penal Code (45of1860), namely, 231to 238 (both inclusive ),302, 304, 382, 392 to 399 (both inclusive) 402 ,435,436,449,450,457 to 460(both inclusive).489-A,489-B ,489C and 489-D.

(f)   any matter likely to affect the maintenance of order or the prevention of crime or the safety of person or property respecting which the District Magistrate, by general or special order made with the previous sanction of the State Government, has directed him to communicate information.

(2) In this section-  

 (a) village includes village- lands

 (b) the expression “proclaimed  offender” includes any person proclaimed as an offender by any Court or authority in any territory in India to which this Code extends , does not extend, in respect of any act which if committed in the territories to which this Code  extends, would be any offence punishable under any of the following section of the Indian Penal Code (45of 1860), namely 302, 304, 382, 392 to 399 (both inclusive),402, 435, 436, 449, 450 and 457 to 460 (both inclusive):

(c) the words “ officer employed in connection with the affair of the village” means a member of the Panchayat of the village and includes the headman and every officer or other person appointed to perform any function connection  with the administrator of the village.