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Section 31: Irregularity in connection with arrest or confinement.

The Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007Central Act · Act 53 of 2007

Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, namely:–

(a) unnecessarily detains a person in arrest or confinement without bringing him to trial, or fails to bring his case before the proper authority for investigation; or

(b) having committed a person to Force custody fails without reasonable cause to deliver at the time of such committal, or as soon as practicable, and in any case within forty-eight hours thereafter, to the officer or other person into whose custody the person arrested is commited, an account in writing signed by himself of the offence with which the person so committed is charged,

shall, on conviction by a Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007
Section31
Marginal noteIrregularity in connection with arrest or confinement.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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