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Arrest of offenders. - (1) A police officer, not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector, shall arrest any person who commits, in his view, any offence against this Act or any rule or any regulation made thereunder, if the name and address of such person be unknown to him and if such person, on demand, declines to give his name and address or give such name or address which such officer has reason to believe to be false. (2) The person so arrested shall, without unavoidable delay be produced before the Judicial Magistrate authorised to try the offence for which the arrest has been made and no person so arrested shall be detained in custody for a period exceeding twenty four hours without any order from the Judicial Magistrate.