law: Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007 
  31.  Irregularity in connection with arrest or
  
  confinement.
  Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following
  
  offences, namely:.
  a.       unnecessarily
  
  detains a person in arrest or confinement without bringing him to trial, or
  
  fails to bring his case before the proper authority for investigation; or
  b.      having
  
  committed a person to Force custody fails without reasonable cause to deliver at
  
  the time of such committal, or as soon as practicable, and in any case within
  
  forty-eight hours thereafter, to the officer or other person into whose custody
  
  the person arrested is committed, an account in writing signed by himself of
  
  the offence with which the person so committed is charged, shall, on conviction
  
  by a Force Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend
  
  to one year or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.