GPOL 148 — Penalty for vexations delay in forwarding a person arrested.

Gujarat Police Act, 1951

Statutory text

Any police officer who vexatiously and unnecessarily delays forwarding any person arrested to a Magistrate or to any other authority to whom he is legally to forward such person, shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both.

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