Section 17

A police officer may in a proclaimed area without warrant arrest any person in respect of whom he has reason to believe that he is a person to whom subsection 13(1) apply and any person so arrested may be detained for a period not exceeding twenty-four hours, pending a decision as to whether an order under that subsection should be made.

A police officer may in a proclaimed area arrest any person ordered to be excluded from the area under section 13 and may detain the person for a period not exceeding twenty-four hours for the purpose of removing him from the area.

Any person detained under the powers conferred by this Act shall be deemed to be in lawful custody and may be detained in any prison or in any police station or in any other similar place authorized generally or specially by the Chief Police Officer.

Every offence against this Act or punishable under section 28 and every offence committed in a proclaimed area against the provisions of any written law for the time being specified in the Second Schedule, shall be seizable and non-bailable for the purposes of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Use of lethal weapons in effecting arrests