Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
11. If information be received that a person against wholn a warrallt of Breaking ope11 a zenallall arrest has been issued, is concealed in a zenanah or allartor female apartment. ment in the actual occupancy of a woinan who, accor&llg to the custonl of the country, does not appear in public, the l'olice Officer employed to esecute tlle warrant shall take such precautions as rnay be necessary to prevent the escape of the accused person ; and if the accusecl person shall not deliver himself up, the Police Officer autliorized to execute the warrant may, if after notification of his authority and purpose and demand of admittance duly made he cannot otherwise obtain admittance, brealc open suclz zeimnah or apartment and execute the warrant entrusted to him, first giving notice to any woman, as aforesaid, i11 such zenanah or apartment, not being a person against whom a marrant has been issued, that she is at liberty to witk~draw and affording her every reasonable facility for withdrawing.
NO unnecessary restraint. 12. The person arrested shall not be subjected to more restraint than is necessary to prevent his escape.
Party arrested to be 13. The Police Officer executing the warrant shall, authority mentioned brongM illllnedi,ztel~ in ~vithout unnecessary delay, bring the person arrested bethe warrant. fore the Magistrate before whom he is required by the
warrant to produce him.
14. A Police Officer shall not offer to the person arrested any inducement, * by threat or promise or otherwise, to make any disdosure. yrolnise, Or arrested. caution to the llarty But no Police Officer shall prevent the person arrcstecl, by any caution or o<her\vise, from lnaliiiig any disclosure which he may lie disposed to make of his o~vn free will.
Source: India Code