citizens by police, and failure of the Magistrate in acting in accordance with the law. SK Sinha J. observed that: “There are complaints about violation of human rights because of indiscriminate arrest of innocent persons by law enforcing agencies in exercise of power under section 54 of the Code and put them in preventive detention on their prayer by the authority and sometimes they are remanded to custody of the police under order of the Magistrate under section 167 of the Code and they are subjected to third degree methods with a view to extract confession. This is what is termed by the Supreme Court of India as 'state terrorism' which is no answer to combat terrorism.” The Division Bench in this case issued eleven guidelines to the police and magistrates as to arrest, detention and remand of suspects. However, these guidelines are not binding on the relevant authorities. Guidelines on Arrest - The police officer making the arrest of any person shall prepare a memorandum of arrest immediately after the arrest and such officer shall obtain the signature of the arrestee with the date and time of arrest in the said memorandum. - The police officer who arrested the person must intimate to a nearest relative of the arrestee and in the absence of the relative, to a friend to be suggested by the arrestee, as soon as practicable but not later than 40