In terms of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the Magistrate to whom an accused is…

Section 187(2) of the BNSS (formerly section 167(2) CrPC) allows police custody for not more than fifteen days in the whole, in whole or in parts, at any time during the initial forty days of a sixty-day detention category or sixty days of a ninety-day category. Repeated shorter police-remand orders cannot exceed fifteen days in aggregate, and the sixty/ninety-day periods do not mean sixty/ninety days of police custody. Unlike the former CrPC position under Anupam J Kulkarni, the fifteen days need no longer fall within the first fifteen days.