Duty to report criminal information: village officers and residents must promptly notify the nearest magistrate or police. Officers employed in village affairs and village residents must promptly inform the nearest Magistrate or officer in charge of the nearest police station of information regarding: known receivers or vendors of stolen property; persons reasonably suspected to be robbers, escaped convicts or proclaimed offenders resorting to or passing through the village; commission or intention to commit non-bailable or specified offences; sudden, unnatural or suspicious deaths, discovery of corpses or disappearances raising suspicion of non-bailable offences; acts near the village outside India that would be serious offences if committed in India; and any matters the District Magistrate, sanctioned by the State Government, directs be reported. Definitions clarify 'village,' 'proclaimed offender,' and the scope of village officers.