Rush Hour: SC clarification on 24-hour custody limit, two killed in Delhi building collapse and more

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The Supreme Court ruled that the 24-hour deadline to produce a detained person before a magistrate begins when they are taken into custody, not when the investigating agency formally records their arrest. “Any attempt to draw an artificial distinction between arrest and detention would dilute or negate the fundamental protection guaranteed by the Constitution,” the bench said.

The only permissible exclusion is the time needed to travel to the magistrate’s court, it added.

The court also ruled that anyone detained beyond 24 hours without being produced before a magistrate must be released immediately. Read on.

The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court directed the Election Commission to restore the names of six members of a family who were deleted from the electoral rolls during the special intensive revision. Their applications for a change of address had been rejected.

The direction came after the petitioners said that their booth-level officer had asked them to submit Form 8 to update their addresses after...

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