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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Section 56

Procedure when police-officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant: Notes Powers of a police-officer.-Where a

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Section 56 is part of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 - Procedure when police-officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant: Notes Powers of a police-officer.-Where a. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) When any officer-in-charge of a police-station [or any police-officer making an investigation, under Chapter XIV] requires any officer subordinate to him to arrest without a warrant (otherwise than in his presence) any person who may lawfully be arrested without a warrant, he shall deliver to the officer required to make the arrest an order in writing, specifying the person to be arrested and the offence or other cause for which the arrest is to be made. [The officer so required shall, before making the arrest, notify to the person to be arrested the substance of the order and, if so required by such person, shall show him the order.]

(2) This section applies also to the police in the town * of Calcutta * * *

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Section Section 56 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Procedure when police-officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant: Notes Powers of a police-officer.-Where a) is reproduced on this page as part of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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