Removal of suspected touts or persons causing nuisance from

POWERS OF POLICE OFFICERS AND PROCEDURE FOR SPEEDY INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL OF OFFENCES rest search and seizure .- (1) If an offence of g, Powers of ar , sence of f ractice or touting takes place in the pre a police officer, not ma p below the rank of an assistant sub-inspector of police, such police officer maye arrest the person and record his observatens about such conduct u individual that constituted the offence of touting. An olice officer having reason to suspect a person of indulging in the

1. (2) y p person and act of touting or malpractice against `;, tourist may search such p an account in relation to any articles found in his possession and may require seize such article if found suspicious and of such nature which could be may used for commission of touting or' malpractice against tourists.
2. (3) A police officer not below the rank of an assistant sub-inspector of e may enter a public or private establishment which he has reason to Polic , used as a place for commission of touting or believe was or is being malpractice against tourists and inspect the same.

ublic laces frequented by tourists .- If a police officer suspects any p p person of indulging in malpractice or touting or otherwise causing nuisance in direct such person to remove a public place frequented by tourists, he may himself from the said place forthwith. with the reasonable directions of police g. Persons bound to comply . with the reasonable officers .- (1) All persons shall be bound to comply

DELHI GAZETTE:EX'IRAORI)JNARY [ directions given by a police officer in the discharge of his duties under this Act.

1. (2) Where any person resists, refuses or fails to comply.with any direction referred to in sub-section (1), a police officer may, without prejudice to any other action that he may take under any other provision of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, remove such person and either produce him before a Metropolitan Magistrate or, in trivial cases, release him when the occasion which necessitated Lhe removal has ceased to exist: Provided that the persons so removed shall, in all cases, be produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate or released, as the case may be, within a period of twenty-four hours of such removal.