Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 61
Power, on escape, to pursue and retake
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BNSS Section 61 deals with power, on escape, to pursue and retake and replaces CrPC 60.
Bare act text — BNSS 61
61. Power, on escape, to pursue and retake.
(1) If a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the person from whose custody he escaped or was rescued may immediately pursue and arrest him in any place in India.
(2) The provisions of section 44 shall apply to arrests under sub-section (1) although the person making any such arrest is not acting under a warrant and is not a police officer having authority to arrest.
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What was BNSS Section 61 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 61 (Power, on escape, to pursue and retake) replaces Section 60 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 60 is now BNSS 61.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- 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 59 — Police to report apprehensions
- BNSS 60 — Discharge of person apprehended
- BNSS 62 — Arrest to be made strictly according to Sanhita
- BNSS 63 — Form of summons
- BNSS 64 — Summons how served
- BNSS 65 — Service of summons on corporate bodies, firms, and societies
- BNSS 66 — Service when persons summoned cannot be found