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The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the constitutional 24‑hour deadline for producing a person before a magistrate begins from the moment of detention, not from the time police formally make an arrest. The court said the rule starts when a police officer “touches the body” to restrain liberty, and that the right to life and liberty cannot be curtailed even by special statutes such as the UAPA, PMLA or NDPS.
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The Supreme Court ruled that police must calculate the 24-hour deadline to produce an accused before a Magistrate from actual detention. A Bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S. Chandurkar delivered the judgment while hearing appeals filed by four individuals in an NDPS case. The appellants had…
