Section 6Power to arrest

s. 6

6. Power to arrest (1) Any police officer, customs officer, or other officer empowered in this behalf by a general or special order of the Government [* * *] or under a rule made under this Act, may arrest without a warrant any person whom such officer reasonably suspects of having contravened [the provision] of section 3. (2) An officer making an arrest under this section shall, without unnecessary delay, take the person arrested or cause him to be taken before a competent Magistrate having jurisdiction in the place where the arrest is made, or to the officer-in-charge of a police station within whose jurisdiction the arrest is made; and the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 [* * *] shall, so far as may be, apply in respect of such arrested person.

1. 10. The commas and words “, or, when the arrest is made in a State, of the corresponding law for the time being in force in that State,” were omitted by section 3 and the Second Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)