Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
धारा 399
Compensation to persons groundlessly arrested
(1) Whenever any person causes a police officer to arrest another person, if it appears to the Magistrate by whom the case is heard that there was no sufficient ground for causing such arrest, the Magistrate may award such compensation, not exceeding one thousand rupees, to be paid by the person so causing the arrest to the person so arrested, for his loss of time and expenses in the matter, as the Magistrate thinks fit.
(2) In such cases, if more persons than one are arrested, the Magistrate may, in like manner, award to each of them such compensation, not exceeding one thousand rupees, as such Magistrate thinks fit.
(3) All compensation awarded under this section may be recovered as if it were a fine, and, if it cannot be so recovered, the person by whom it is payable shall be sentenced to simple imprisonment for such term not exceeding thirty days as the Magistrate directs, unless such sum is sooner paid.
सत्यापन प्रतीक्षित
यह क्यों है
पुलिस गिरफ्तारी शुरू कराने की शक्ति गम्भीर होती है और कोई निराधार आरोप लगाकर इसका दुरुपयोग कर सकता है ताकि दूसरे को परेशान किया जा सके। यह धारा ऐसे दुरुपयोग को हतोत्साहित करती है, क्योंकि यदि मजिस्ट्रेट यह पाते हैं कि शिकायत के पर्याप्त आधार नहीं थे और उससे गिरफ्तारी हुई, तो शिकायतकर्ता को व्यक्तिगत रूप से (वित्तीय रूप से) जवाबदेह बनाती है, जिससे गलत तरीके से गिरफ्तार व्यक्ति को अलग दीवानी वाद दायर किए बिना शीघ्र उपचार मिल जाता है।