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Section 17: Power to arrest without warrant

The Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976State Act of Karnataka · Act 76 of 1976

(1) Any Tree Officer may arrest without warrant any person reasonably suspected of having been concerned in any offence under this Act, if such person refuses to give his name and residence or gives a name or residence which the Tree Officer has reason to believe is false or if he has reason to believe that the person will abscond.

(2) Any person arrested under this section shall be informed, as soon as may be, of the grounds for such arrest and shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate having Jurisdiction in the case within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest, excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the Magistrate and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a Magistrate.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976
Section17
Marginal notePower to arrest without warrant
JurisdictionState of Karnataka
StatusIn force as published by the source

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