State Act
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Section 44. Power to arrest for offence under Section 43
Act no. 2 of 20022002In forceDelhi (State Act)
44. When any person, in the presence of any officer of a prison, commits any offence specified in the last foregoing Section and refuses on demand of such officer to state his name and residence or gives a name or residence, which such officer knows or has reason to believe, to be false, such officer may arrest him, and shall without unnecessary delay make him over to a police officer and thereupon such police officer shall proceed as if the offence had been committed in his presence.