Exchange of Prisoners Act : Lawfulness of custody and retaking upon escape. Indian Bare Acts :

Exchange of Prisoners Act,1948

Act No : 58

Section : Lawfulness of custody and retaking upon escape.

6.Lawfulness of custody and retaking upon escape. It shall be lawful for any officer of Pakistan to whom the custody of a prisoner is delivered under the provisions of section 4 to receive and hold in custody such prisoner and to convey him out of India, and if the prisoner escapes from such custody within India he may be retaken as a person accused of an offence may be retaken upon an escape.