Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007
31. Irregularity in connection with arrest or
confinement.
Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following
offences, namely:.
a. unnecessarily
detains a person in arrest or confinement without bringing him to trial, or
fails to bring his case before the proper authority for investigation; or
b. having
committed a person to Force custody fails without reasonable cause to deliver at
the time of such committal, or as soon as practicable, and in any case within
forty-eight hours thereafter, to the officer or other person into whose custody
the person arrested is committed, an account in writing signed by himself of
the offence with which the person so committed is charged, shall, on conviction
by a Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend
to one year or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.