Indian Forest Act, 1927
64. Power
to arrest without warrant. –
(1) Any Forest-officer or Police-officer may,
without orders from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest any person against
whom a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been concerned in any
forest-offence punishable with imprisonment for one month or upwards.
(2) Every officer making an arrest under this
section shall, without unnecessary delay and subject to the provisions of this
Act as to release on bond, take or send the person arrested before the
Magistrate having jurisdiction in the case, or to the officer in charge of the
nearest police station.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to
authorize such arrest for any act which is an offence under Chapter IV unless
such act has been prohibited under clause (c) of section 30.