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Guidelines for arrest

  STANDING ORDER NO. 330/2008   GUIDELINES FOR ARREST                      The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in the matter of Joginder Kumar Vs State of UP ( Crl. WP No. 9 of 1994 ) made the following observations:-   1.       No arrest can be made because it is lawful for the Police Officer to do so. The existence of the power to arrest is one thing. The justification for the exercise of it is quite another. The Police Officer must be able to justify the arrest apart from his power to do so.   2.           No arrest can be made in a routine manner on a mere allegation of commission of an offence made against a person……… no arrest should be made without a reasonable satisfaction reached after some investigation as to the genuineness and bona fides of a complaint and a reasonable belief both as to the person’s complicity and even so as to the need to effect arrest.   3.           A person is not liable to arrest merely on the su