State the D.K Basu Guidelines.
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The Guidelines of DK Basu are:-
1. Police Officers carrying out arrest and handling interrogations of arrestee should bear
perfect, visible and clear identification and name tags with designations. Particulars of all such
police Officers who controls interrogations of arrestee should be recorded in a register.
2. Police Officer carrying out arrest should prepare a memo of arrest at time of arrest and such
memo should be attested by one witness who can either be a member of family of arrestee
or a respectable person of locality from where the arrest is done. It will be counter signed by
the arrestee and should have the time and date of arrest.
3. Person who had been arrested/detained and is in custody in police station or
interrogation room or lock ups should be entitled to have one friend/relative or other person known
to him or having interest in his welfare being informed as soon as practicable that he had been arrested
and is detained in any place till attesting witness of memo of arrest is himself such a friend/relative of
the arrested.
4. Time and place of arrest and custody venue of an arrested should be mentioned by police where next
friend/relative of arrested lives outside district/town through the Legal Aid Organisation in the
District and police station of that area concerned telegraphically within a period of 8-12 hours after arrest.
5. Person arrested should be alerted of his right to informed of his arrest or detention to someone very fast.
Guidelines of D.K Basu:
The guidelines made by the Supreme Court after the case of D. K. Basu gave its name as D. K. Basu guidelines which provided protocol for arrest or detention or interrogating any person.
The D. K. Basu guidelines states that,
- The police persons in context must bear name tags distinctly accurate with designation.
- Arrest memo must be made prior and attestation must be done by “at least one witness”.
- Arrest must be made informed to at least “one friend or relative”.