(2)[ An Abkari Officer may without an order or without a warrant from a Magistrate, arrest and detain any person who obstructs him while in the execution or discharge of his duty or who has escaped from his lawful custody:Provided that every person who is arrested and detained in custody shall be produced before the 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 Magistrate and no such person shall be detained in custody beyond the said period without the authority of a Magistrate:] [By Act 4 of 1996 Section 33 of the Act remembered as sub-section (1) of that section and sub Section (2) along with proviso inserted.]
