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Under section 187(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, within which initial windows may…

Section 187(2) permits up to fifteen days of police custody in total, in one period or in parts. The window is the first forty days in the sixty-day category and the first…

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Under section 187(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, within which initial windows may a Magistrate authorize up to fifteen days of police custody in total?

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Section 187(2) permits up to fifteen days of police custody in total, in one period or in parts. The window is the first forty days in the sixty-day category and the first sixty days in the ninety-day category under section 187(3).

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Option A

Fifteen days is the aggregate cap. The statutory windows are longer.

Option B

The statute provides a forty-day window for the sixty-day category and a sixty-day window for the ninety-day category.

Option C

The forty- and sixty-day windows are correct, subject to the fifteen-day total cap.

Option D

The sixty-day window applies to the ninety-day category. The sixty-day category has a forty-day window.

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