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Section 4: Power to require person found begging to appear before Court.

The Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959State Act of Maharashtra · Act 10 of 1959

(1) Any police officer or other person authorised in this behalf in accordance with rules made by the State Government, may arrest without a warrant any person who is found begging:

Provided that, no person entering on any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms shall be so arrested or shall be liable to any proceedings under this Act, except upon a complaint by the occupier of the premises.

(2) Such police officer or other person shall take or send the person so arrested to a Court.

(3) The provisions of section 61 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), shall apply to every arrest under this section, and the officer in charge of the police station or section shall cause the arrested person to be kept in the prescribed manner until he can be brought before a Court.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959
Section4
Marginal notePower to require person found begging to appear before Court.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • other. Now see the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (II of 1974).

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