(1) All persons shall be bound to comply with the directions given by a police officer on approval of the same by a superior officer not below the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police/Deputy Supreintendent of Police/Sub-Divisional Police Officer in the discharge of his duties under this Act.
(2) Where any person resists, refuse or fails to comply with any directions 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 a Metropolitan Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate of First Class, as the case may be, 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 Magistrate or released, as the case may be, within a period of twenty four hours of such removal.