Which one of the following legal powers has been conferred on CISF deployed at an undertaking which has been declared as a 'prohibited place'?

Under Section 11 of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Act, 1968, any member of the Force is empowered to arrest any person without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant if that person is involved in a cognizable offence relating to the property of an industrial undertaking or is found under suspicious circumstances suggesting intent to commit such an offence. This is a critical power for maintaining security at 'prohibited places'.

Crucially, the CISF is not a police force with full investigative powers. According to Section 13 of the Act, any person arrested by a CISF member must be handed over to a police officer or the nearest police station without unnecessary delay. The CISF does not have the legal authority to conduct formal investigations or grant bail; those functions remain with the regular police under the Code of Criminal Procedure.