Section 7: Power to enter and arrest

7. Power to enter and arrest.___ (1) If any Magistrate, the Chairman of a District Council or a Municipal Committee or a Town Committee, the Mayor of a Municipal Corporation, or the Chairman or a Member of a District Zakat and Ushr Committee has reason to believe that any offence punishable under this Ordinance has been committed by any person in or at a public place he may enter the public place and arrest such person. (2) Where the Magistrate arresting any person under sub-section (1) is for the time being empowered to try in a summary way the offences specified in sub-section (1) of section 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), such Magistrate may try such person at the place where he is arrested in accordance with the provisions contained in sections 262 to 265 of the said Code. (3) When any person is arrested under sub-section (1) by a person other than a Magistrate referred to in sub-section (2) such person shall, if a bond to his satisfaction is not executed, forward the person arrested to the nearest Police Station, with a report of the circumstances in which such arrest was made.

Effective date: 1981-01-01

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