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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 resembles the writ of Habeas Corpus?

Section 100 BNSS (formerly section 97 CrPC) permits a search warrant where a person is believed confined in circumstances amounting to an offence and requires the recovered…

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Which provision of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 resembles the writ of Habeas Corpus?

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Section 100 BNSS (formerly section 97 CrPC) permits a search warrant where a person is believed confined in circumstances amounting to an offence and requires the recovered person to be brought immediately before a Magistrate. Its protection against wrongful confinement resembles habeas corpus, although it is a statutory Magistrate’s remedy rather than the constitutional writ itself. Section 94 concerns production of documents; Section 96 other search warrants; Section 99 applications to the High Court against a declaration of forfeiture.

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