Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 59
Police to report apprehensions
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BNSS Section 59 deals with police to report apprehensions and replaces CrPC 58.
Bare act text — BNSS 59
59. Police to report apprehensions.
Officers in charge of police stations shall report to the District Magistrate, or, if he so directs, to the Sub-divisional Magistrate, the cases of all persons arrested without warrant, within the limits of their respective stations, whether such persons have been admitted to bail or otherwise.
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What was BNSS Section 59 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 59 (Police to report apprehensions) replaces Section 58 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 58 is now BNSS 59.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 54 — Identification of person arrested
- BNSS 55 — Procedure when police officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant
- BNSS 56 — Health and safety of arrested person
- BNSS 57 — Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police station
- BNSS 58 — Person arrested not to be detained more than twenty-four hours
- BNSS 60 — Discharge of person apprehended
- BNSS 61 — Power, on escape, to pursue and retake
- BNSS 62 — Arrest to be made strictly according to Sanhita
- BNSS 63 — Form of summons
- BNSS 64 — Summons how served