Under Section 3(2) of the Prevention of Black-marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential…
Section 3(2) provides that District Magistrates and "Commissioners of Police, wherever they have been appointed" may also exercise the power under s.3(1). Sub-Divisional…
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Under Section 3(2) of the Prevention of Black-marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980, the officers additionally empowered to issue detention orders include:
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Section 3(2) provides that District Magistrates and "Commissioners of Police, wherever they have been appointed" may also exercise the power under s.3(1). Sub-Divisional Magistrates and Superintendents of Police are not named, and judicial officers such as Chief Judicial Magistrates and Sessions Judges have no power to make detention orders.