'WOMAN ARREST LAW'

ACCORDING TO INDIAN PENAL CODE

The following is the text of an E-mail I received from Mr. Shantnu: -

Please read the following carefully. It's very important to all of us to protect our wives, sisters also along with our entire female friends and their female relatives & colleagues.

"An incident took place in Pune - a young girl was raped by a man posing as a plain clothes officer; he asked her to come to the police station when she and her male friend didn't have a driver's license to show. He sent the boy off to get his license and asked the girl to accompany him to the police station. Took her instead to an isolated area where the horrendous crime was committed.

The law, which most are not aware of clearly states that between 6 pm and 6 am, a woman has the right to REFUSE to go to the Police Station, even if an arrest warrant has been issued against her. It is a procedural issue that a woman can be arrested between 6 pm and 6 am, ONLY if she is arrested by a woman officer and taken to an ALL WOMEN police station. And if a male officer arrests her, it has to be proven that a woman officer was on duty at the time of arrest.

Please forward this to as many girls you know. Also to boys because this can help them protect their wives, sisters and mothers.

It is good for us to know our rights. To what extent it comes of use remains to be seen in any situation. But as they say, knowledge is power.

I did not know this and I am sure lot of us doesn’t. Please be informed"