# The Assam Prisons Act, 2013, Section 77

- Act: The Assam Prisons Act, 2013 (Act 15 of 2013)
- Source URL: https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-prisons-act-2013/section/77/

## Text

When any person, in the presence of any officer of a prison, commits any offence specified in section 75 or section 76, and refuses on demand of such officer to state his name and address, or gives a name or address which such officer knows, or has reason to believe, to be false, such officer may arrest him, and shall without unnecessary delay make him over to a police officer, and thereupon such police officer shall proceed as if the offence had been committed in his presence. Publication of penalties

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