Analysis of Decisions of the Higher Judiciary on Arrest and Detention in Bangladesh
6(six) hours of such arrest notifying the time and place
of arrest and the place of custody.
- An entry must be made in the diary as to the grounds of
arrest and name of the person who informed the
police to arrest the person or made the complaint
along with his address and shall also disclose the
names and particulars of the relative or the friend, as
the case may be, to whom information is given about
the arrest and the particulars of the police officer in
whose custody the arrestee is staying.
- Copies of all the documents including the
memorandum of arrest, a copy of the information or
complaint relating to the commission of cognizable
offence and a copy of the entries in the diary should be
sent to the Magistrate at the time of production of the
arrestee for making the order of the Magistrate under
section 167 of the Code.
- The Magistrate shall not make an order of detention of
a person in judicial custody if the police forwarding the
report disclose that the arrest has been made for the
purpose of putting the arrestee in preventive
detention
Guidelines on Remand
- If the arrested person is taken on police remand, he
must be produced before the Magistrate after the
expiry of the period of such remand and in no case
shall he be sent to the judicial custody after the period
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