Bare Acts › Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC)

Section 41B

This Act has been repealed — see The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (from 2024-07-01). The prior text continues to govern matters arising before that date.

Procedure of arrest and duties of officer making arrest

The CrPC 1973 was replaced by the BNSS 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 41B — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 531, BNSS 2023).

Every police officer while making an arrest shall-- (a) bear an accurate, visible and clear identification of his name which will facilitate easy identification; (b) prepare a memorandum of arrest which shall be-- (i) attested by at least one witness, who is a member of the family of the person arrested or a respectable member of the locality where the arrest is made; (ii) countersigned by the person arrested; and (c) inform the person arrested, unless the memorandum is attested by a member of his family, that he has a right to have a relative or a friend named by him to be informed of his arrest.] Inserted by Act 5 of 2009, Section 41(w.e.f. 01/11/2010).