Railways Act, 1989
180. Arrest of persons likely to abscond, etc.
(1) If any person who commits any offence under this Act, other
than an offence mentioned in section 179, or is liable to pay any excess charge
or other sum demanded under section 138, fails or refuses to give his name and
address or there is reason to believe that the name and address given by him
are fictitious or that he will abscond, any railway servant authorized in this
behalf or any police officer not below the rank of a head constable may arrest
him without warrant or written authority.
(2) The railway servant or the police officer may call to his
aid any other person to effect the arrest under sub-section (1).
(3) Any person arrested under this section shall be produced
before the nearest Magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such
arrest excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to
the court of the Magistrate unless he is released earlier on giving bail or if
his true name and address are ascertained on executing a bond without sureties
for his appearance before the Magistrate having jurisdiction to try him for the
offence.
(4) The provisions of Chapter XXIII of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), shall so far as may be, apply to the giving of
bail and the execution of bonds under this section.