Power of arrest.

–(1) Any officer of police, not below the rank of a Sub-inspector, any officer of the Customs Department and any other officer of the Government empowered by a general or special order of the Government

provisions of order made under section 2.

1. (2) Every officer making an arrest under this section shall, without unnecessary delay, take or send the person arrested before a Magistrate 1[x x x ]

or to the officer-in-charge of the nearst police station and the provisions of

1. Words “having jurisdiction in the case” omitted by Act XI of 1966.

section 61 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1989, shall apply in the case of any such arrest.