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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Railways (Second Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 3

Substitution of New Section for Section 179

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Railways (Second Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 3 is part of Railways (Second Amendment) Act, 2003 - Substitution of New Section for Section 179. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

For section 179 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:--

"179. Arrest for offences under certain sections (1) If any person commits any offence mentioned in sections 150 to 152, he may be arrested without warrant or other written authority by any railway servant or police officer not below the rank of a head constable.

(2) If any person commits any offence mentioned in sections 137 to 139, 141 to 147, 153 to 157, 159 to 167 and 172 to 176, he may be arrested, without warrant or other written authority, by the officer authorised by a notified order of the Central Government

(3) The railway servant or the police officer or the officer authorised, as the case may be, may call to his aid any other person to effect the arrest under subsection (1) or sub-section (2), as the case may be.

(4) Any person so arrested under this section shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the Magistrate.".

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