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TypeBare Act JurisdictionKarnataka Government

Command Areas Development Act, 1980 Section 31

Power to Remove and Take into Custody Person Obstructing

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Command Areas Development Act, 1980 Section 31 is part of Command Areas Development Act, 1980 - Power to Remove and Take into Custody Person Obstructing. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

Any officer or authority incharge of or employed on any irrigation system under a pipe-outlet may remove from the land or any building thereon or may take into custody without a warrant and forthwith hand over to a police officer in-charge of the nearest police station, any person who within his view,-

(a) wilfully damages, alters, enlarges or obstructs any irrigation system under a pipe-outlet; or

(b) without proper authority interferes with the supply or flow of water in or from any irrigation system under a pipe-outlet so as to endanger, damage or render less useful such irrigation system under a pipe-outlet:

Provided that every person so taken into custody shall be produced before the nearest magistrate within a period of twenty four hours of such custody excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the magistrate and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a magistrate.

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What does Command Areas Development Act, 1980 Section 31 provide?

Section Section 31 of the Command Areas Development Act, 1980 (Power to Remove and Take into Custody Person Obstructing) is reproduced on this page as part of the Command Areas Development Act, 1980. 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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