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An offender who has been ordered to be detained in a centre or a remand home who

(a) escapes from the centre or remand home or from any hospital or other place where the offender is receiving medical attention;

(b) escapes from the custody of the person in whose charge the offender has been placed pending or in the course of being conveyed or transferred in accordance with any of the provisions of this Part;

(c) being absent from a centre on temporary leave of absence or on licence, escapes from the person in whose charge the offender has been placed, or fails to return to the centre on the expiration of the leave or on the revocation of the licence; or

(d) being absent from a centre under supervision fails to return to the centre when recalled, may be arrested without warrant and brought before a juvenile court which may increase the detention in a centre to a period not exceeding three months for a juvenile and a period not exceeding six months for a young offender notwithstanding any limitation in this Part as to the term for which an offender may be detained in a centre.