Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 110 views

    18 D.K. Basu Guidelines PDF

    Uploaded by

    Nikhil Arora
    The Supreme Court of India established 11 guidelines for making arrests: 1. Police officers must visibly display accurate identification and name tags. Details of interrogating officers must be recorded. 2. A memo of arrest must be prepared at arrest and witnessed/signed by an arrestee's family member or local resident. 3. Arrestees can inform one family member/friend of their arrest and location. 4. Arrest details must be sent within 8-12 hours to the next of kin if they live outside the district/town. 5. Arrestees must be made aware of their right to inform someone of their arrest.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    18 D.K. Basu Guidelines PDF

    Uploaded by

    Nikhil Arora
    110 views2 pages
    The Supreme Court of India established 11 guidelines for making arrests: 1. Police officers must visibly display accurate identification and name tags. Details of interrogating officers must be recorded. 2. A memo of arrest must be prepared at arrest and witnessed/signed by an arrestee's family member or local resident. 3. Arrestees can inform one family member/friend of their arrest and location. 4. Arrest details must be sent within 8-12 hours to the next of kin if they live outside the district/town. 5. Arrestees must be made aware of their right to inform someone of their arrest.

    Original Title

    18 d.k. basu guidelines.pdf

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The Supreme Court of India established 11 guidelines for making arrests: 1. Police officers must visibly display accurate identification and name tags. Details of interrogating officers must be recorded. 2. A memo of arrest must be prepared at arrest and witnessed/signed by an arrestee's family member or local resident. 3. Arrestees can inform one family member/friend of their arrest and location. 4. Arrest details must be sent within 8-12 hours to the next of kin if they live outside the district/town. 5. Arrestees must be made aware of their right to inform someone of their arrest.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    110 views2 pages

    18 D.K. Basu Guidelines PDF

    Uploaded by

    Nikhil Arora
    The Supreme Court of India established 11 guidelines for making arrests: 1. Police officers must visibly display accurate identification and name tags. Details of interrogating officers must be recorded. 2. A memo of arrest must be prepared at arrest and witnessed/signed by an arrestee's family member or local resident. 3. Arrestees can inform one family member/friend of their arrest and location. 4. Arrest details must be sent within 8-12 hours to the next of kin if they live outside the district/town. 5. Arrestees must be made aware of their right to inform someone of their arrest.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 2

    APPENDIX – IV

    GUIDELINES LAID DOWN BY THE HON'BLE SUPREME COURT IN


    D.K. BASU CASE

    The Hon'ble Supreme Court, in D.K. Basu Vs State of West Bengal, has laid down
    specific guidelines required to be followed while making arrests:

    I. The police personnel carrying out the arrest and handling the interrogation of the
    arrestee should bear accurate, visible and clear identification and name tags with their
    designations. The particulars of all such police personnel who handle interrogation of
    the arrestee should bear accurate, visible and clear identification and name tags with
    their designation. The particular of all such personnel who handle interrogation of the
    arrestee must be recorded in a register.
    II. That the police officer carrying out the arrest shall prepare a memo of arrest at the
    time of arrest and such memo shall be attested by at least one witness, who may be
    either a member of the family of the arrestee or a respectable person of the locality
    from where the arrest is made. It shall also be counter signed by the arrestee and shall
    contain the time and date of arrest.
    III. A person who has been arrested or detained and is being held in custody in a police
    station or interrogation centre or other lock up, shall be entitled to have one friend or
    relative or other person known to him or having interest in his welfare being
    informed, as soon as practicable, that he has been arrested and is being detained at the
    particular place, unless the attesting witness of the memo of arrest is himself such a
    friend or a relative of the arrestee.
    IV. The time, place of arrest and venue of custody of an arrestee must be notified by the
    police where the next friend or relative of the arrestee lives outside the district or town
    through the Legal Aids Organization in the District and the police station of the area
    concerned telegraphically within a period of 8 to 12 hours after the arrest.
    V. The person arrested must be made aware of his right to have someone informed of his
    arrest or detention as soon as he is put under arrest or is detained.
    VI. An entry must be made in the diary at the place of detention regarding the arrest of the
    person which shall also disclosed the name of the next friend of the person who has
    been informed of the arrest and the names land particulars of the police officials in
    whose custody the arrestee is.
    VII. The arrestee should, where he so request, be also examines at the time of his arrest
    and major and minor injuries, if any present on his /her body, must be recorded at that
    time. The Inspector Memo' must be signed both by the arrestee and the police officer
    effecting the arrest and its copy provided to the arrestee.
    VIII. The arrestee should be subjected to medical examination by the trained doctor every
    48 hours during his detention In custody by a doctor on the panel of approved doctor
    appointed by Director, Health Services of the concerned State or Union Territory,
    Director, Health Services should prepare such a panel for all Tehsils and Districts as
    well.
    IX. Copies of all the documents including the memo of arrest, referred to above, should
    be sent to the Magistrate for his record.
    X. The arrestee may be permitted to meet his lawyer during interrogation, though not
    throughout the interrogation.
    XI. A police control room should be provided at all district and State headquarters where
    information regarding the arrest and the place of custody of the arrestee shall be
    communicated by the officer causing the arrest, within 12 hours of effecting the arrest
    and at the police control room it should be displayed on a conspicuous notice board.

    You might also like