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Section 73: Power to arrest without warrant.

The Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873Central Act · Act 8 of 1873

Any person in charge of or employed upon any canal or drainage-work may remove from the lands or buildings belonging thereto, or may take into custody without a warrant and take forthwith before a Magistrate or to the nearest police - station, to be dealt with according to law, any person who, within his view, commits any of the following offences:--

(1) wilfully damages or obstructs any canal or drainage work;

(2) without proper authority interferes with the supply or flow of water in or from any canal or drainage-work, or in any river or stream, so as to endanger, damage or render less useful any canal or drainage-work.

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ActThe Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873
Section73
Marginal notePower to arrest without warrant.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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