24-hour deadline to produce arrested person before magistrate begins from detention, not formal arrest: SC

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the constitutional 24-hour deadline for producing an arrested person before a magistrate must be calculated from the time the person is first detained, and not from the time the police formally records the arrest. A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S Chandurkar held that there can be no artificial distinction between 'arrest' and 'detention' while…

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