Maharashtra Police Act 1951
Chapter V :
Special Measures for Maintenance of Public Order and Safety of State :
I. Employment of Additional Police, recovery of cost thereof and of riots compensation – its assessment and recovery :
Section 47 :
Employment of additional Police on application of a person :
(1) The Commissioner or 1.[Superintendent] may, on the application of any person, depute any additional number of Police to keep the peace, to preserve order or to enforce any of the provisions of this or any other Act in respect of any particular class or classes of offences or to perform any other Police duties at any place in the area under his charge.
(2) Such additional Police shall be employed at the cost of the person making the application, but shall be subject to the orders of the Police authorities and shall be employed for such period as the appointing authority thinks fit.
(3) If the person upon whose application such additional Police are employed shall at any time make a written requisition to the appointing authority to which the application for the employment of additional Police was made, for the withdrawal of the said Police, he shall be relieved from the cost thereof at the expiration of such period not exceeding one month from the date of the delivery of such requisition as the State Government or the appointment authority, as the case may be, shall determine.
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1. Substituted for the words ‘District Superintendent’ by Maharashtra 46 of 1962, Section 3, Schedule.
