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State of Karnataka - Section

Section 20 in Karnataka Traffic Control Act, 1960

20. Power to arrest without warrant.

(1)A police officer in uniform may arrest without warrant,-
(a)any person who being required under the provisions of this Act to give his name and address refuses to do so, or gives a name and address which the police officer has reason to believe to be false, or
(b)any person concerned in an offence under this Act or reasonably suspected to have been so concerned, if the police officer has reason to believe that he will abscond or otherwise avoid the service of summons.
(c)A police officer or other authority arresting without warrant the driver of a vehicle or animal shall, if the circumstances so require, take or cause to be taken any steps he may consider proper for the temporary custody of the vehicle or animal.