BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 172 — Persons bound to conform to lawful directions of police
Replaces CrPC Section -.
(1) All persons shall be bound to conform to the lawful directions of a police officer given in fulfilment of any of his duty under this Chapter. (2) A police officer may detain or remove any person resisting, refusing, ignoring or disregarding to conform to any direction given by him under sub-section (1) and may either take such person before a Magistrate or, in petty cases, release him as soon as possible within a period of twenty-four hours.
Nearby sections
- 169 Information of design to commit cognizable offences.
- 170 Arrest to prevent commission of cognizable offences.
- 171 Prevention of injury to public property.
- 173 Information in cognizable cases.
- 174 Information as to non-cognizable cases and investigation of such cases.
- 175 Police officer’s power to investigate cognizable case.
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