CrPC 2(o)BNSS 2(1)(r)

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Under Section 2(1)(r) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 2(o) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 2(1)(r)

(r) “officer in charge of a police station” includes, when the officer in charge of the police station is absent from the station-house or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the police 18 officer present at the station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is above the rank of constable or, when the State Government so directs, any other police officer so present;