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(d) While total noncompliance of requirements
of Subsections (1) and (2) of Section 42 is
impermissible, delayed compliance with
satisfactory explanation about the delay will be
acceptable compliance of Section 42. To
illustrate, if any delay may result in the accused
escaping or the goods or evidence being
destroyed or removed, not recording in writing
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the information received, before initiating action,
or nonsending a copy of such information to the
official superior forthwith, may not be treated as
violation of Section 42. But if the information
was received when the police officer was in the
police station with sufficient time to take action,
and if the police officer fails to record in writing
the information received, or fails to send a copy
thereof, to the official superior, then it will be a
suspicious circumstance being a clear violation of
Section 42 of the Act. Similarly, where the police
officer does not record the information at all, and
does not inform the official superior at all, then
also it will be a clear violation of Section 42 of
the Act. Whether there is adequate or substantial
compliance with Section 42 or not is a question of
fact to be decided in each case. The above
position got strengthened with the amendment to
Section 42 by Act 9 of 2001."