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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 In force since 1 July 2024

Section 187 BNSS - Procedure when Investigation cannot be Completed in twenty-four Hours

Act
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section
187 - Procedure when Investigation cannot be Completed in twenty-four Hours
Old provision
Section 167 CrPC

Old law → Section 187 BNSS

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Section 167 CrPC Modified A new insertion into Subsection (2) of Section 187 of BNSS provides that the Magistrate to whom an accused person is forwarded under this section may, irrespective of whether he has or has no jurisdiction to try the case, after taking into consideration th e status of the accused person as to whether he is not released on bail or his bail has not been cancelled, authorise, from time to time, the detention of the accused in such custody as such Magistrate thinks fit, for a term not exceeding fifteen days in t he whole, or in parts, at any time during the initial forty days or sixty days out of the, IPS , Director, CAPT Bhopal detention period of sixty days or ninety days, as the case may be, as provided in sub - section (3).

Section 187 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with procedure when Investigation cannot be Completed in twenty-four Hours. Under the old law this was Section 167 of the CrPC.

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