BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 100 — Search for persons wrongfully confined.
Replaces CrPC Section 97.
If any District Magistrate, Sub-divisional Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class has reason to believe that any person is confined under such circumstances that the confinement amounts to an offence, he may issue a search-warrant, and the person to whom such warrant is directed may search for the person so confined; and such search shall be made in accordance therewith, and the person, if found, shall be immediately taken before a Magistrate, who shall make such order as in the circumstances of the case seems proper.
Nearby sections
- 97 Search of place suspected to contain stolen property, forged documents, etc.
- 98 Power to declare certain publications forfeited and to issue search-warrants for same.
- 99 Application to High Court to set aside declaration of forfeiture.
- 101 Power to compel restoration of abducted females.
- 102 Direction, etc., of search-warrants.
- 103 Persons in charge of closed place to allow search.
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