Section 243: Deserters and absentees withont leave surrendering to police

(1) Where a person surrenders himself to a police officer as being illegally absent from the Armed Forces, the police officer shall, unless he surrenders himself at a police station, bring him to a police station.
(2) The police officer in charge of a police station at which a person has surrendered himself, or to which a person who has so surrendered himself is brought, shall forthwith inquire into the case, and if it appears to that officer that the person is illegally absent from the Armed Forces he may cause him to be delivered into service custody without bringing him before a magistrate's court, or may bring him before such court.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or rule of law, the person appearing before a magistrate's court under this section shall not be admitted to bail.