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Center Owned by NE Now24-hour deadline for production before Magistrate begins at detention, not formal arrest: SC
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court in New Delhi ruled that the constitutional requirement to present an arrested person before a magistrate within 24 hours starts from the moment of detention, not from the police’s formal arrest. In a separate development, the Centre informed the Court that it is setting up a special committee to re‑examine the University Grants Commission’s 2026 equity regulations.
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Guwahati: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the 24-hour deadline for producing an arrested person before a Magistrate begins from the time of detention, not from the formal recording of arrest. A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S Chandurkar held that treating detention and formal…
