section 12B
Power to arrest.
The Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Act, 1963(1) A police officer not below the rank of subinspector shall arrest any person who cornmi ts, in his view, any offence againsl thrs Act or any rule made thereunder, if the name and ;rrlrfress of such person be unknown to him and ?such person, on demand declines to give his n q e and address, or gives such name or address which such officer has rcason to believe to be false. (2) The person so arrested shall, without unavoidable delay be produced before the Magistrate authorised to try the offence for which the a n a l has k e n made, and no person, so arrested, shall Ix detained in custody for a period exceeding ~wenty-four hours without an order from the above mentioned Magstrate.
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