law: Railways Act, 1989
  180. Arrest of persons likely to abscond, etc. 
  (1) If any person who commits any offence under this Act, other
  
  than an offence mentioned in section 179, or is liable to pay any excess charge
  
  or other sum demanded under section 138, fails or refuses to give his name and
  
  address or there is reason to believe that the name and address given by him
  
  are fictitious or that he will abscond, any railway servant authorized in this
  
  behalf or any police officer not below the rank of a head constable may arrest
  
  him without warrant or written authority.
  (2) The railway servant or the police officer may call to his
  
  aid any other person to effect the arrest under sub-section (1).
  (3) Any person arrested under this section shall be produced
  
  before the nearest Magistrate within a period of twenty-four hours of such
  
  arrest excluding the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to
  
  the court of the Magistrate unless he is released earlier on giving bail or if
  
  his true name and address are ascertained on executing a bond without sureties
  
  for his appearance before the Magistrate having jurisdiction to try him for the
  
  offence.
  (4) The provisions of Chapter XXIII of the Code of Criminal
  
  Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), shall so far as may be, apply to the giving of
  
  bail and the execution of bonds under this section.