24-hour deadline to produce person before magistrate starts from detention, not ‘formal arrest’: SC

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the 24-hour deadline to produce a detained person before a magistrate begins when they are taken into custody , not when the investigating agency formally records their arrest, Live Law reported. Treating detention and “formal arrest” as separate events for the deadline is constitutionally unsustainable, held a bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S…

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