Section 82
Power of arrest without warrant.
The Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002
About this Act
An Act to provide for the operation and maintenance and to regulate the working of the metro railway in the National Capital Region, metropolitan city and metropolitan area and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.
(1) If a person commits any offence mentioned in sections
59, 61, 65 to 79, he may be arrested without warrant or other written authority by any metro railway
official or by a police officer not below the rank of a head constable or by any other person whom such
metro railway official or police officer may call to his aid:
Provided that where a person has been arrested, by any person other than the police officer, he shall be made over to a police officer, or, in the absence of a police officer, take such person or cause him to be taken in custody to the nearest police station.
(2) A person so arrested under sub-section (1) shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate, having authority to try him or commit him for trial, as early as possible but within a period not exceeding twentyfour hours of such arrest exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the Magistrate.
Provided that where a person has been arrested, by any person other than the police officer, he shall be made over to a police officer, or, in the absence of a police officer, take such person or cause him to be taken in custody to the nearest police station.
(2) A person so arrested under sub-section (1) shall be produced before the nearest Magistrate, having authority to try him or commit him for trial, as early as possible but within a period not exceeding twentyfour hours of such arrest exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the Magistrate.