The Supreme Court laid down certain basic “requirements” to be followed in all
cases of arrest or detention till legal provisions are made in that behalf as a measure
to prevent custodial violence. The requirements read as follows: :

1. The police personnel carrying out the arrest and handling the interrogation of the
   arrestee would bear accurate, visible and clear identification and name tags with
   their designations, The particulars of all such police personnel who handle
   interrogation of the arrestee must be recorded in a register.
2. That the police officer carrying out the arrest of the arrestee shall prepare a memo
   of arrest at the time of arrest and such memo shall be at least attested by one witness
   who may either be a member of the family of the arrestee or a respectable person of
   the locality from where the arrest is made. It shall also be countersigned by the
   arrestee and shall contain the time and date of arrest.
3. A person who has been arrested or detained and is being held in custody in a
   police station or interrogation centre or other lock-up, shall be entitled to have one
   friend or relative or other person known to him or having interest in his welfare
   being informed, as soon as practicable, that he has been arrested and is being
   detained at the particular place, unless the attesting witness of the memo of arrest is
   himself such a friend or a relative of the arrestee.
4. The time, place of arrest and venue of custody of an arrestee must be notified by
   the police where the next friend or relative of the arrestee lives outside the district or
   town through the Legal Aid Organisation in the district and the police station of the
   area concerned telegraphically within a period of 8 to 12 hours after the arrest.
5. The person arrested must be made aware of this right to have someone informed
   of his arrest or detention as soon as he is put under arrest or is detained,
6. An entry must be made in the diary at the place of detention regarding the arrest
   of the person which shall also disclose the name of the next friend of the person
   who has been informed of the arrest and the names and particulars of the police
   officials in whose custody the arrestee is.
7. The arrestee should, where he so requests, be also examined at the time of his
   arrest and major and minor injuries, if any present on his/her body, must be
   recorded at that time.The ‘Inspection Memo’ must be signed both by the arrestee and
   the police officer effecting the arrest and its copy provided to the arrestee.
8. The arrestee should be subjected to medical examination by a trained doctor every
   hours during his detention in custody by a doctor on the panel of approved doctors
   appointed by Director, Health Services of the State or Union Territory concerned.
   Director, Health Services should prepare such a panel for all tehsils and districts as
   well
9. Copies of all the documents including the memo of arrest, referred to above,
   should be sent to the Illaqa Magistrate for his record.
10. The arrestee may be permitted to meet his lawyer during interrogation, though
    not throughout the interrogation.
11. Police control room should be provided at all district and State headquarters,
    where information regarding the arrest and the place of custody of the arrestee shall
    be communicated by the officer causing the arrest. within 12 hours of effecting the
    arrest and at the police control room it should be displayed on a conspicuous notice
    board.
12. This Court also opined that failure to comply with the above requirements, apart
    from rendering the official concerned liable for departmental action, would also
    render him liable to be punished for contempt of court and the proceedings for
    contempt of court could be instituted in any High Court of the country, having
    territorial jurisdiction over the matter.

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