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Center-Left Owned by The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd.24-hour production clock starts from detention, not formal arrest: Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court ruled that the constitutional 24‑hour deadline for producing an arrested person before a magistrate begins at the moment of detention – when a police officer touches the body to restrain liberty – rather than at the formal arrest. A bench comprising Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S Chandurkar held that the right to life and liberty cannot be curtailed even by special statutes such as the UAPA, PMLA or NDPS. The judgment clarifies that no artificial distinction can be made between detention and arrest.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the constitutional mandate of producing an arrested person before a magistrate within 24 hours begins from the moment of detention, when liberty is curtailed, and not from the time of formal arrest recorded by the police. A bench of Justices Ujjal…
