Person arrested to be brought before Court without delay
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Summary
When a person is arrested under a warrant, the arresting officer must, subject to any security requirements, bring them before the court they are required to appear in without unnecessary delay. In no case may that delay exceed twenty-four hours, excluding the time reasonably needed to travel from the place of arrest to the Magistrate's Court.
Example
Ravi is arrested on a warrant for failing to appear in court. The officer must take him before the appropriate court without unnecessary delay and in any event within twenty-four hours, excluding the time needed to travel to the Magistrate's Court.
Bare Act
Enacted textThe police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to the provisions of section 73 as to security) without unnecessary delay bring the person arrested before the Court before which he is required by law to produce such person: Provided that such delay shall not, in any case, exceed twenty-four hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate's Court.
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