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CHAPTER V ARREST OF PERSONS

Section 55: Procedure when police officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

(1) When any officer in charge of a police station or any police officer making an investigation under Chapter XII requires any officer

subordinate to him to arrest without a warrant (otherwise than in his presence) any person who may lawfully be

arrested without a warrant, he shall deliver to the officer required to make the arrest an order in writing, specifying

the person to be arrested and the offence or other cause for which the arrest is to be made and the officer so

required shall, before making the arrest, notify to the person to be arrested the substance of the order and, if so required by such person, shall show him the order.

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall affect the power of a police officer to arrest a person under section 41.

Now in the BNSS

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

55. Procedure when police officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant.BNSS 55

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