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Delay in submission of arrest cards brought to notice of collector NT News Service Vasco March 8: The deputy collector and sub-divisional magistrate, Mormugao, Mr Levinson Martins has brought to the notice of the district collector, south that the discrepancy in the printing of the arrest cards be corrected accordingly and the delays in submission of such reports be taken note of. Mr Martins says that he has heard that in the arrest card under which the report of the arrest of a person without warrant is submitted, it is mentioned that the same is submitted under Section 62 of Criminal Procedure Code 1898. Accordingly Mr Martins has said that the corresponding Section under the Code of the Criminal Procedure 1973 is Section 58, under which the police has to report to the district magistrate or if he so directs to the sub-divisional magistrate, the cases of all such persons arrested without warrant, within the limits of their respective stations, whether such person have been granted bail or otherwise. The mandate of the above provision of law is to make the magistrate aware about the arrest of a person without warrant and such reports are to be submitted at the earliest. However these are often filed with considerable delay, thus defeating the very purpose of the provision of law. -- TUMCHER AXIRVAD ASSUM; DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England