12. Notwithstanding anything in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898,- ¹[* * *] (b) an offence under this Act, other than an offence punishable with imprisonment fro a term which may extend to fourteen years, shall be a cognizable and bailable offence; and (c) any member of the armed forces of Bangladesh may, without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest, in or in the vicinity of a prohibited place, any person who has been concerned in an Offence under section 3, or under section 3 read with section 9, or under clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 5, or under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 6, or against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received, or a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been so concerned, and shall without unnecessary delay take or send the person arrested before a Magistrate having Jurisdiction in the case or before an officer in charge of a police-station, and thereupon the provisions of the said Code applicable in respect of a person who, having been arrested without warrant, has been taken or sent before a Magistrate or before an officer in charge or a police-station shall apply to him.