law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  43.Arrest by Private person and procedure on such arrest.-
  (1) Any private person may arrest or cause to
  
  be arrested any person who in his presence commits a non-bailable and
  
  cognizable offence, or any proclaimed offender, and, without unnecessary delay,
  
  shall make over or cause to be made over any person so arrested to a police
  
  officer, or, in the absence of a police officer, take such person or cause him
  
  to be taken in custody to the nearest police station.
  (2) If there is reason to believe that such person comes under the provisions
  
  of section 41, a police officer shall re-arrest him.
  (3) If there is reason to believe that he has committed a non-cognizable
  
  offence, and he refuses on the demand of a police officer to give his name and
  
  residence, or gives a name or residence which such officer has reason to
  
  believe to be false, he shall be dealt with under the provisions of section 42;
  
  but if there is no sufficient reason to believe that he has committed any
  
  offence, he shall be at once released.