Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 172
Persons bound to conform to lawful directions of police
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BNSS Section 172 deals with persons bound to conform to lawful directions of police; it is a new provision with no CrPC equivalent.
Bare act text — BNSS 172
172. Persons bound to conform to lawful directions of police.
(1) All persons shall be bound to conform to the lawful directions of a police officer given in fulfilment of any of his duty under this Chapter.
(2) A police officer may detain or remove any person resisting, refusing, ignoring or disregarding to conform to any direction given by him under sub-section (1) and may either take such person before a Magistrate or, in petty cases, release him as soon as possible within a period of twenty-four hours.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 167 — Local inquiry
- BNSS 168 — Police to prevent cognizable offences
- BNSS 169 — Information of design to commit cognizable offences
- BNSS 170 — Arrest to prevent commission of cognizable offences
- BNSS 171 — Prevention of injury to public property
- BNSS 173 — Information in cognizable cases
- BNSS 174 — Information as to non-cognizable cases and investigation of such cases
- BNSS 175 — Police officer’s power to investigate cognizable case
- BNSS 176 — Procedure for investigation
- BNSS 177 — Report how submitted