Police Custody
Definition
Detention of an arrested person under direct police control for questioning, tightly time limited and subject to a magistrate's authorisation beyond the first 24 hours.
Related terms
- Arrest Memo
- A written record of an arrest, naming the time and place, attested by a witness and given to the arrested person, required...
- Zero FIR
- An FIR registered at a police station that does not have territorial jurisdiction over the offence, entered with a serial number of...
- Anticipatory Bail
- A court order granted before arrest that directs the police to release a named person on bail if they are arrested on...
- Arrest Without Warrant
- An arrest made on an officer's own authority, without a prior order from a magistrate, where reasonable grounds and a defined investigative...
- Bail
- The conditional release of an accused person from custody pending trial, usually against a bond and sometimes a surety.
- Charge Sheet
- The final report an investigating officer files with a magistrate at the close of investigation, summarising evidence and naming the accused to...
- Cognizable Offence
- An offence for which a police officer may arrest without a warrant and start investigating without a magistrate's prior order, listed as...
- Complaint to a Magistrate
- A report made directly to a magistrate rather than to police, used mainly for a non-cognizable offence or when a complainant chooses...
- Final Report or Charge Sheet
- The report an investigating officer files at the close of investigation, either recommending trial or recommending that the case be closed for...
- First Information Report
- The first recorded account of a cognizable offence, given to police, that sets an investigation in motion and that officers are legally...
- First Information Report (FIR)
- The written record an officer in charge of a police station prepares on receiving information about a cognizable offence, which sets the...
- Judicial Remand
- An order by a magistrate or judge committing an accused person to custody, police or judicial, during investigation or trial.
Explained in these topics
- Criminal Investigation: FIR, Arrest and Custody (UGC-NET Unit V)
- Criminal Investigation: From Complaint to Charge SheetThe period during which an arrested person is held under police control for investigation, distinct from later judicial custody in prison pending trial.
- Pre-Trial Detention, Judicial Remand and BailCustody of an arrested person held by the investigating agency itself, subject to a strict statutory time limit before a magistrate must review it.