law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  358.Compensation to persons groundlessly arrested.-
  (1) Whenever any person causes a police
  
  officer to arrest another person, if it appears to the Magistrate by whom the
  
  case is heard that there was no sufficient ground for causing such arrest, the
  
  Magistrate may award such compensation, not exceeding one hundred rupees, to be
  
  paid by the person so causing the arrest to the person so arrested, for his
  
  loss of time and expenses in the matter, as the Magistrate thinks fit.
  (2) In such cases, if more persons than one are arrested, the Magistrate may,
  
  in like manner, award to each of them such compensation, not exceeding one
  
  hundred rupees, as such Magistrate thinks fit.
  (3) All compensation awarded under this section may be recovered as if it were a
  
  fine, and if it cannot be so recovered, the person by whom it is payable shall
  
  be sentenced to simple imprisonment for such term not exceeding thirty days as
  
  the Magistrate directs, unless such sum is sooner paid.