An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Criminal Procedure.

PART I - PRELIMINARY

CHAPTER VI OF PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE

B.—Warrant of Arrest

81. The police-officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to the provisions of section 76 as to security) without unnecessary delay bring the person arrested before the Court before which he is required by law to produce such person.

PART II: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY
33. Safeguards as to arrest and detention
No person who is arrested shall be detained in custody without being informed, as soon as may be of the grounds for such arrest, nor shall he be denied the right to consult and be defended by a legal practitioner of his choice .Every person who is arrested and detained in custody shall be produced before the nearest magistrate within a period of twenty four hours of such arrest, excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the court of the magistrate, and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a magistrate.

Nothing in clauses (1) and (2) shall apply to any person-
who for the time being is an enemy alien; or
who is arrested or detained under any law providing for preventive detention.

No law providing for preventive detention shall authorise the detention of a person for a period exceeding six months unless an Advisory Board consisting of three persons, of whom two shall be persons who are, or have been, or are qualified to be appointed as, Judges of the Supreme Court and the other shall be a person who is a senior officer in the service of the Republic, has, after affording him an opportunity of being heard in person, reported before the expiration of the said period of six months that there is, in its opinion, sufficient cause for such detention. When any person is detained in pursuance of an order made under any law providing for preventive detention, the authority making the order shall, as soon as may be, communicate to such person the grounds on which the order has been made, and shall afford him the earliest opportunity of making a representation against the order:

PART II: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY
35. Protection in respect of trial and punishment
No person shall be convicted of any offence except for violation of a law in force at the time of the commission of the act charged as an offence , nor be subjected to a penalty greater than, or different from that which might have been inflicted under the law in force at the time of the commission of the offence No person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once.

Every person accused of a criminal offence shall have the right to a speedy and public trial by an independent and impartial court or tribunal established by law

No person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself. No person shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment or treatment .Nothing in clause (3) or clause (5) shall affect the operation of any existing law which prescribes any punishment or procedure for trial.

Article 11. Powers of Tribunal

(3) A Tribunal shall:

(b) take measures to prevent any action which may cause unreasonable delay, and rule out irrelevant issues and statements.