He also answered questions about the right of an arrested person to a phone call, saying that the CPC gives an arrested person the right to two phone calls. However, he said that in reality an arrested suspect would get only one phone call. Shashi said that there were circumstances where the police could keep an arrested person for an extended period in a police lock-up on remand. “The other technique is to send the arrested person to another police station once the initial remand period expires. They will ask the second police station to investigate the arrested person for any of their unsolved cases.

Source: The Star December 01, 2016 22:55 UTC