BE Act 80Chapter IX · Detection, Investigation and Trial of Offences and Procedure
Section 80 · Maximum period of detention
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No person arrested under this Act shall be detained in custody for a longer period than under all the circumstances of the case is reasonable; and such period shall not exceed twenty-four hours, exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest, to the place where a Collector or an Excise Officer empowered under Section 73, sub-section (2), to investigate the case and thence to the Court of Magistrate having jurisdiction to inquire into or try the case.(2)
A Magistrate to whom an accused person is forwarded under Section 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act 5 of 1898), by a Collector or an Exercise Officer empowered under Section 73, Sub-section (2), may excise the powers conferred upon a Magistrate by the said Section 167.Your private note on this section
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