Lawgist65Persons bound to comply with the reasonable directions of police officer
(1) All persons shall be bound to comply with the reasonable directions given by a police officer in the discharge of his duties under this Act.
(2) Where any person resists, refuses or fails to comply with any direction referred to in sub-section (1), a police officer may, without prejudice to any other action that he may take under any other provision of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, remove such person and either produce him before a Metropolitan Magistrate or, in trivial cases, release him when the occasion which necessitated the removal has ceased to exist:
Provided that the person so removed shall in all cases be produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate or released, as the case may be, within a period of twenty-four hours of such removal.
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- 59 Duty of police officer to enforce provisions of the Act
- 60 Other duties of a police officer
- 61 Power to enter places of public resort
- 62 Power to search suspected persons in street, etc
- 63 Emergency duties of police
- 64 Superior police officer may himself perform duties imposed on a subordinate officer
- 65 Persons bound to comply with the reasonable directions of police officer
