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#CRPC160 Police can call people only via written notice for investigation: Madras High court guidelines on CrPC 160. Someone from Police Station calls on your phone to ask to pay them a visit for enquiry/investigation/talk etc, is just plain illegal as far as adherence to CrPC is concerned.  The only legal way is via a written summons mentioning particular date and time (note: emails can also be taken as written notice). Police officer has to summon via a written summon, but that summon should also specify a particular date and time for appearing in front of police.   Also note that minutes of this enquiry have to be mandatorily noted in the general diary/station diary/daily diary of Police Station, which means again that the verbal chit-chat police people in Police Station like to engage with accused, without keeping written records, is also not legal.  All those probably happen with no entry about visit, or enquiry records anywhere. Any officer violatin...

In case of a Police Arrest Every Indian citizen must know the following GUIDELINES  LAID DOWN BY THE HON'BLE SUPREME COURT IN . D K BASU CASE The Hon'ble Supreme Court, in "D.K. Basu Vs State of West Bengal", has laid down  specific guidelines required to be followed while making an arrests, # The police personnel carrying out the arrest and handling the interrogation of the arrestee should bear accurate, visible and clear identification and name tags with their designations.  # The particular of all such personnel who handle interrogation of the arrestee must be recorded in a register. # That the police officer carrying out the arrest shall prepare a 'memo' of arrest at the time of arrest,  and  such memo shall be attested by at least one 'witness', who may be  either 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 counter signed by the arrestee and sh...

Important Legal contribution of Indian Freedom Fighter & Lawyer - 'Shri Vithalbhai Patel' He passed and fought for several bills and amendments. Vithalbhai played a prominent role in two bills on the Bombay provincial legislative council, "the Bombay District Municipal Act Amendment Bill" and "The Town Planning Bill" in 1914.  His most well known proposal for which he received praise was for the extension of primary education to municipal districts in the Bombay presidency outside of the city of Bombay in 1917. After a long battle, the bill was passed after several amendments and modifications. Throughout his time on the legislative council, he passed and fought for several bills and amendments on medical practice.  In a 1912 amendment to the Bombay medical act, he sought to register doctors for disciplinary action for malpractice.  This amendment did not include ayurvedic physicians.  In 1923 he was elected to the Central Legislative Assembl...