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Section 23: Persons bound to comply with direction of police officer

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

(1) All persons shall be bound to comply with the reasonable directions given by a police officer in the discharge of his duties under this Act.

(2) Where any person resists, refuses or fails to comply with any direction referred to in sub-section (1), a police officer may, without prejudice to any other action that he may take under any other provision of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, remove such person and either produce him before the nearest Magistrate or, in trivial cases, release him when the occasion which necessitated the removal has ceased to exist:

Provided that the person so removed shall, in all cases, be produced before the nearest Magistrate or released, as the case may be, within a period of twenty-four hours of such removal.

CHAPTER - IV REGULATION, CONTROL AND DISCIPLINE OF POLICE

Where this provision sits

ActOdisha Urban Police Act, 2003
Section23
Marginal notePersons bound to comply with direction of police officer
JurisdictionState of Odisha
StatusIn force as published by the source

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