Section 301 BNSS — Definitions

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Official PDF page 93

301. In this Chapter,—

(a) "detained" includes detained under any law providing for preventive detention;

(b) "prison" includes,—

(i) any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail;

(ii) any reformatory, Borstal institution or other institution of a like nature.

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