Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 07:52am on 05 Nov 2026,Thursday India
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the 24-hour deadline for producing an arrested person before a magistrate starts from the time of actual detention, not formal arrest. A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S Chandurkar said police cannot delay recording an arrest to avoid the constitutional deadline. The court said anyone held beyond 24 hours without being produced before a magistrate must be released immediately. Necessary travel time to the court can be excluded. The ruling came in a drug smuggling case involving alleged delayed recording of an arrest.
