Every person is bound to assist a Magistrate or police officer reasonably demanding his aid-
(a) in the taking or preventing the escape of any other person whom such Magistrate or police officer is authorised to arrest; or
(b) in the prevention or suppression of a breach of the peace; or
(c) in the prevention of any injury attempted to be committed to any railway, canal, telegraph or public property.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
31 CrPC Sentence in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial
32 CrPC Mode of conferring powers
33 CrPC Powers of officers appointed
35 CrPC Powers of Judges and Magistrates exercisable by their successors-in-office
36 CrPC Powers of superior officers of police
37 CrPC Public when to assist Magistrates and police
38 CrPC Aid to person, other than police officer, executing warrant