Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 301
Definitions
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BNSS Section 301 deals with definitions and replaces CrPC 266.
Bare act text — BNSS 301
301. Definitions.
In this Chapter,--- (a) "detained" includes detained under any law providing for preventive detention; (b) "prison" includes,--- (i) any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail; (ii) any reformatory, Borstal institution or other institution of a like nature.
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What was BNSS Section 301 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 301 (Definitions) replaces Section 266 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 266 is now BNSS 301.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 296 — Power of Court in plea bargaining
- BNSS 297 — Period of detention undergone by accused to be set off against sentence of imprisonment
- BNSS 298 — Savings
- BNSS 299 — Statements of accused not to be used
- BNSS 300 — Non-application of Chapter
- BNSS 302 — Power to require attendance of prisoners
- BNSS 303 — Power of State Government or Central Government to exclude certain persons from operation of section 302
- BNSS 304 — Officer in charge of prison to abstain from carrying out order in certain contingencies
- BNSS 305 — Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody
- BNSS 306 — Power to issue commission for examination of witness in prison