Question

    The Magistrate may award compensation to persons groundlessly arrested not exceeding:

    A One thousand rupees Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Three thousand rupees Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Five thousand rupees Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Ten thousand rupees Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    CrPC: Section 358 Compensation to persons groundlessly arrested: (1) Whenever any person causes a police officer to arrest another person, if it appears to the Magistrate by whom the case is heard that there was no sufficient ground for causing such arrest, the Magistrate may award such compensation, not exceeding one thousand rupees, to be paid by the person so causing the arrest to the person so arrested, for his loss of time and expenses in the matter, as the Magistrate thinks fit.

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