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Apply the law as of 8 November 2026. Under section 187 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023,…

The remand period starts with the Magistrate's first authorisation of detention after production, not police arrest alone. Section 187 governs that judicially authorised…

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Apply the law as of 8 November 2026. Under section 187 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, assume there is no earlier Executive Magistrate detention and no special statutory extension. Which event starts the sixty-day or ninety-day period?

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The remand period starts with the Magistrate's first authorisation of detention after production, not police arrest alone. Section 187 governs that judicially authorised detention. The Supreme Court's remand analysis in ED v Kapil Wadhawan identifies the remand order as the starting event. In the ordinary case with no earlier Executive Magistrate detention, the date of first authorised remand is included in the calculation.

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Option A

Police detention before judicial remand is not this starting event.

Option B

Judicial authorisation of remand starts the remand period.

Option C

The period does not wait for police custody to end.

Option D

A charge sheet does not start the remand period.

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