24-hour rule begins with detention, not arrest: SC

New Delhi: In a significant judgment, the Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the 24-hour constitutional deadline for producing an arrested person before a magistrate begins from the moment of detention, not from the time the police formally make the arrest. Holding that there can be no artificial distinction between ‘arrest’ and ‘detention’ for the purpose […]

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