Discuss how an arrest should be made under Section 46 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973.

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Discuss how an arrest should be made under Section 46 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973.

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How an arrest should be made under section 46 of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 In making an arrest the police officer or other person making the same shall actually touch or confine the body of the person to be arrested, unless there be a submission to the custody by word or action. However, where a woman is to be arrested, unless the circumstances indicate to the contrary, her submission to custody on an oral intimation of arrest shall be presumed and, unless the circumstances otherwise require or unless the police officer is a female, the police officer shall not touch the person of the woman for making her arrest. If such person forcibly resists the endeavour to arrest him, or attempts to evade the arrest, such police officer or other person may use all means necessary to effect the arrest. However, nothing in section 46 of Criminal Procedure Code gives a right to cause the death of a person who is not accused of an offence punishable with death or with imprisonment for life. Moreover, save in exceptional circumstances, no woman shall be arrested after sunset and before sunrise, and where such exceptional circumstances exist, the woman police officer shall, by making a written report, obtain the prior permission of the Judicial Magistrate of the first class within whose local jurisdiction the offence is committed or the arrest is to be made.

Topics: Criminal Procedure Code, 1973

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