34. Duty of officers 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 of the nearest police station, whichever is nearer, any information which he may possess respecting—

1. the permanent or temporary residence of any notorious receiver or vendor of stolen property in or near such village;
2. the resort to any place in or near such village of any person who he knows or reasonably suspects to be a thug, robber, escaped convict or proclaimed offender;
3. the commission of, or intention to commit, in or near such village any non-bailable offence or any offence punishable under any of the sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 which are specified in section 33;
4. the occurrence in or near such village of any sudden or unnatural death or of any death under suspicious circumstances or the discovery in or near such village of any corpse or part of a corpse, in circumstances which lead to a reasonable suspicion that such a death has been caused by the commission of any offence;
5. the commission of, or the intention to commit, at any place outside India near such village, any act which, if committed in India, would be an offence punishable under any of the said sections;
6. 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,—

1. "village" includes village-lands;
2. the expression "village officer" means persons, by whatever name known, who under the existing law of the State are employed for the administration of village affairs.