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Section 46 - Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
46.Arrest how made.-
(1) 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.
(2) If such person forcibly resists the endeavor to arrest him, or attempts to evade the arrest, such police officer or other person may use all means necessary to effect the arrest.
(3) Nothing in this section 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.
Related Sections
- Section 356: Order for notifying address of previously convicted offender
- Section 304: Legal aid to accused at State expense in certain cases
- Section 483: Duty of High Court to exercise continuous superintendence over Courts of Judicial Magistrates
- Section 31: Sentence in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial
- Section 360: Order to release on probation of good conduct or after admonition
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