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Section 10: Power to arrest without warrant - (1) Any member of the Force, may without any order from a magistrate and without a warrant arrest

The Andhra Pradesh Special Protection Force Act, 1991State Act of Andhra Pradesh · Act 25 of 1991

(i) any person, who voluntarily causes hurt to or attempts voluntarily to cause hurt to, or wrongfully restrains or attempts wrongfully to restain or assaults threatens to assault or uses or threatens or attempts to use criminal Force to any employee referred to in clause (iv) of section 8, or to him or any other member of the Force in discharge of his duty as such employee or in execution of his duty as such member, as that case may be, or with intent to prevent or to deter him from discharging his duty as such member or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by him in the lawful discharge of his duty as such member;

(ii) any person who has been concerned in, or against whom a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been concerned in or who is found taking precautions to conceal his presence under circumstances which afford reason to believe that he is taking such precautions with a view to committing, a cognizable offence which relates to property belonging to, or in the premises of, any establishment, institution, autonomous body, industrial undertaking and assets or any strategic and vital installations referred to in clauses (ii) and

(iii) of section 8, or relates to other installations or to property in the premises of the other installation, referred to in these clauses or the establishments, institutions, autonomous bodies, industrial undertakings and assets or strategic vital installations for the protection of which he is deputed under section 9;

(iii) any person who commits or attempts to commit a cognizable offence which involves or which is likely to involve danger, to the life of any person engaged in carrying on any work relating to any establishment, institution, autonomous body, undertaking, or installations referred to in clauses (ii) of this sub- section.

(2) If any person is found trespassing on the premises of any industrial undertaking referred to in clause (ii) of sub-section (1), he may, without prejudice to any other proceedings which may be taken against him, be removed from such premises by any member of the Force.

11. Power to search without warrant - (1) Whenever any member of the Force, has reason to believe that any such offence as is referred to in section 10 has been or is being committed and that a search warrant cannot be obtained without affording the offender an opportunity of escaping or concealing evidence of the offence, he may detain the offender and search his person, belongings and premises forthwith and, if he thinks proper, arrest any person whom he has reason to believe to have committed the offence.

(2) The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974) relating to searches under that code shall, so far as may be, apply to searches under this section.

12. Procedure to be followed after arrest - Any member of the Force making an arrest under this Act, shall, without unnecessary delay, make over the person so arrested to a police officer, or, in the absence of a police officer, take such person or cause him to be taken to the nearest police station together with a report of the circumstances occasioning the arrest.

13. Protection of action done in good faith - No suit or prosecution shall be entertained in any Court against the Force or against any officer or member of the Force or against any person acting under the order or direction of the Force or any officer or member of the Force for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or any rules made there under.

14. Cognizance of offence - No Court shall take cognizance of an offence against any member of the Force with regard to any act done by him while discharging or purporting to act in the discharge of his duty except with the prior sanction of the Government.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Andhra Pradesh Special Protection Force Act, 1991
Section10
Marginal notePower to arrest without warrant - (1) Any member of the Force, may without any order from a magistrate and without a warrant arrest
JurisdictionState of Andhra Pradesh
StatusIn force as published by the source

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