Section 13: To hold in detention

1) A person who is arrested in accordance with this Chapter shall be held in detention.

2) A person shall be detained pursuant to sub-section (1), only upon serving on such person a warrant for detention in the form referred to in Schedule-10, setting out the place where such person was arrested and the reason for holding in detention.

3) If any person is detained pursuant to sub-section (1), there shall be prepared his or her records containing, inter alia, his or her name, surname, age, address including street, father’s name, mother’s name, citizenship certificate or other identity card, if any, disclosing his or her identity, and failing such certificate or card, driving license, passport, telephone number, if any, and duplicate copies of similar documents setting out his or her real identity.

4) For the purposes of sub-section (3), the investigating authority may, as required, also take his or her photograph and thumb impressions of both hands, with palms.

5) After the preparation of the records pursuant to sub section (3), the concerned police office or investigating authority shall give information, based on such records, about his or her detention to the person specified by the person held in detention to receive such information.

6) If a person arrested pursuant to this Section intends to consult a law practitioner, the investigating authority shall allow him or her to consult such law practitioner.