Section 8 of The Kerala Police Act, 2011 View Chapter 3

Rights of the public at a police station.

(1) Subject to reasonable practicality, all persons shall have the right to receive lawful services from a police station and for peaceful entry and reception at any time at any Police Station.

(2) Any member of the public shall, subject to reasonable restrictions, have the right to meet the officer in charge of any Police Station and to give information on matters and this right shall not be denied without sufficient reasons.

(3) Every police station shall have the facility for women to submit complaints with privacy in the presence of women police.

(4) Any number of the public shall have the right to receive a receipt acknowledging the complaint given by him and to know the stage of the Police action or investigation in respect of the complaint.

(5) The substance of any complaint made orally or in writing by any member of the public in a police station shall be entered in a chronologically and contemporaneously maintained permanent register kept at the police station.

(6) Any citizen shall have the right to know whether any particular person is in custody at the police station.