Report No. 177

1.13.13 Chandigarh

In this Union Territory the preventive arrests are as many as 4,286 as against 2,215 persons arrested for substantive offences (1,856 under IPC and 359 under local and State laws). The percentage of arrests made in relation to bailable offences is 47.35% in respect of IPC offences and 87.18% under local and State laws.