Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
In order to determine whether an offender is a suitable person for being sent to the Borstal School, the court should as soon as it frames the charge, or where summary procedure has to be followed at the earliest possible moment, cause inquiries to be made regarding the offender's antecedents, character, institutional and vocational training and also regarding his mental and physical state of health. Mental and physical examination, together with assessment of age, should, if necessary, be made by competent medical authority. Other inquiries should be conducted through the Probation Officer or the District After Care Association, where such an association exists. Where such associations do not exist, the court should cause necessary preliminary inquiries to be made through any official or non-official organisation or any other source of information, which may be suggested by the District Magistrate.