Section Text
In the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955), after section 10A, the following section shall be inserted, namely:--
["10AA. Power to arrest. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), no officer below the rank of an officer in charge of a police static) s or any police officer authorised by him in this behalf in writing shall arrest any person accused of committing an offence punishable under this Act."].