Arrest safeguards ensure prompt magistrate production and procedural protections during detention, including identity tags, memo, medical checks and lawyer access. Arrests must comply with the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, including production before a Magistrate within a reasonable period not exceeding twenty four hours for warrantless arrests. The D.K. Basu guidelines require identification of arresting officers, a contemporaneous memo of arrest attested and counter signed, informing a friend or relative, notification procedures for distant next of kin, detention diary entries, inspection memos for injuries, periodic medical examination by approved doctors, sending arrest documentation to the Magistrate, limited access to counsel during interrogation, and communication of custody details to police control rooms.
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Arrest safeguards ensure prompt magistrate production and procedural protections during detention, including identity tags, memo, medical checks and lawyer access.
Arrests must comply with the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, including production before a Magistrate within a reasonable period not exceeding twenty four hours for warrantless arrests. The D.K. Basu guidelines require identification of arresting officers, a contemporaneous memo of arrest attested and counter signed, informing a friend or relative, notification procedures for distant next of kin, detention diary entries, inspection memos for injuries, periodic medical examination by approved doctors, sending arrest documentation to the Magistrate, limited access to counsel during interrogation, and communication of custody details to police control rooms.
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