24-hour arrest rule starts from detention: Supreme Court
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New Delhi The Supreme Court on Thursday (November 5, 2026) declared in a judgment that ‘arrest’ means the moment an official “touches the body” of an individual to restrain her liberty, and the 24-hour countdown to produce that person before a Judicial Magistrate begins from the very second of that physical contact.
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