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Under Section 187 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the maximum period of police…

Section 187(2) of the BNSS (formerly section 167(2) CrPC) allows police custody for a term not exceeding fifteen days in the whole, or in parts, at any time during the…

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Under Section 187 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the maximum period of police custody, in the whole or in parts, that a Magistrate can authorise during an investigation is:

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Section 187(2) of the BNSS (formerly section 167(2) CrPC) allows police custody for a term not exceeding fifteen days in the whole, or in parts, at any time during the initial forty or sixty days of the applicable sixty- or ninety-day detention period. Unlike the CrPC, which confined police custody to the first fifteen days, the BNSS lets the fifteen days be split, but the aggregate still cannot exceed fifteen days.

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