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Section 108: Vexatious entry, search, arrest, etc. by police officer

Odisha Urban Police Act, 2003State Act of Odisha · Act 8 of 2007

Any police officer working in a Commissionerate, who–

(a) without lawful authority or reasonable cause enters or searches, or causes to be entered or searched, any building, vessel, tent or place; or

(b) vexatiously and unnecessarily seizes the property of any person;

or

(c) vexatiously and unnecessarily detains, searches or arrests any person; or

(d) offers any unnecessary personal violence to any person in his custody; or

(e) holds out any threat or promise not warranted by law, shall, for every such offence, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

Where this provision sits

ActOdisha Urban Police Act, 2003
Section108
Marginal noteVexatious entry, search, arrest, etc. by police officer
JurisdictionState of Odisha
StatusIn force as published by the source

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