TWO BALCK LAWS OF BANGLADESH

[Shamim Ansary]

DMP ORDINANCE 1986

586. Penalty for being found under suspicious circumstances between sunset and sunrise

Penalty for being found under suspicious circumstances between sunset and sunrise

Whoever is found between sunset and sunrise -

(a) armed without any satisfactory excuse with any dangerous instruments; or

(b) having without any satisfactory excuse his face covered or otherwise disguised; or

(c) in any dwelling house or other building, or on board any vessel or boat or in any vehicle without being able to satisfactorily account for his presence there; or

(d) lying or loitering in any street, yard or other place without being able to give a satisfactory account of himself; or

(e) having in his possession without satisfactory excuse any implement of house-breaking;

shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with a fine which may extend to two thousand taka.

ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT

54 (1) Any Police Officer may, without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest

First, any person who has been concerned in any cognizable offence or against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received or a reasonable suspicion exists of his being so concerned;

Secondly, any person having in his possession without lawful excuse, the burden of proving which excuse shall lie on such person, any implement of house-breaking;

Thirdly, any person who has been proclaimed as an offender either under this Code or by order of the government;

Fourthly, any person in whose possession anything is found which may reasonably be suspected to be stolen property and who may reasonably be suspected of having committed an offence with reference to such thing;

Fifthly, any person who obstructs a Police Officer which in the execution of his duty, or who has escaped, or attempts to escape, from lawful custody;

Sixthly, any person reasonably suspected of being a deserter from the armed forces of Bangladesh,

Seventhly, any person who has been concerned in, or against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received or a reasonable suspicion exists of his having been concerned in, any act committed at any place out of Bangladesh, which if committed in Bangladesh, would have been punishable as an offence, and for which he is, under any law relating to extradition or under the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, or otherwise, liable to be apprehended or detained in custody in Bangladesh;

Eighthly, any released convict committing a breach of any rule made under section 565, sub-section (3);

Ninthly, any person for whose arrest a requisition has been received from another Police Officer, provided that the requisition specified the person to be arrested and the offence or other cause for which the arrest is to be made and it appears therefrom that the person might lawfully be arrested without a warrant by the officer who issued the requisition.


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