Maharashtra Village Police Act, 1967
Bare Act · 1967
- Act number
- 46 of 1967
- Enacted
- 22 December 1967
- Contents
- 18 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 3 – Administration, control and direction of village police, in whom vested
- Section 4 – Power to depute to Superintendent or Commissioner of Police authority over village police officer
- Section 5 – Appointment, remuneration and other conditions of service of Police-patils
- Section 6 – Duties of Police-patil (preview)
- Section 7 – Authority over village servants (preview)
- Section 8 – Precautions against robbery, etc (preview)
- Section 9 – Penalties for neglect of duty, etc (preview)
- Section 10 – Liability to criminal prosecution not affected (preview)
- Section 11 – Power to suspend pending departmental inquiry or criminal trial (preview)
- Section 12 – Information to Station Officer when criminal in village has escaped or is not known (preview)
- Section 13 – Investigation into cases of unnatural or sudden death or corpse found within village (preview)
- Section 14 – Police-patil to apprehend person he believes has committed serious offence (preview)
- Section 15 – Power to call and examine witnesses, record evidence and search for concealed articles (preview)
- Section 16 – Unclaimed property (preview)
- Section 17 – Prosecutions under other laws for offence punishable under this Act (preview)
- Section 18 – Repeal and savings (preview)