Act Number: 58

Act Name: The Exchange of Prisoners�Act, 1948

Year: 1948

Enactment Date: 1948-09-10

Long Title: An Act to provide, in pursuance of an agreement with Pakistan for the exchange of prisoners, for the of certain prisoners from India to Pakistan and the reception in India of certain prisoners from Pakistan.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 6: Lawfulness of custody and retaking upon escape.
    It shall be lawful for any officer of Pakistan to whom the custody of a prisoner is delivered under the provisions of section 4 to receive and hold in custody such prisoner and to convey him out of India, and if the prisoner escapes from such custody within India he may be retaken as a person accused of an offence may be retaken upon an escape.
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