SECTION 305 BNSS – Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody

Subject to the provisions of section 304, the officer in charge of the prison shall, upon delivery of an order made under sub-section (1) of section 302 and duly countersigned, where necessary, under sub-section (2) thereof, cause the person named in the order to be…

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SECTION 304 BNSS – Officer in charge of prison to abstain from carrying out order in certain contingencies

Where the person in respect of whom an order is made under section 302- (a) is by reason of sickness or infirmity unfit to be removed from the prison; or (b) is under committal for trial or under remand pending trial or pending a preliminary…

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SECTION 303 BNSS – Power of State Government or Central Government to exclude certain persons from operation of section 302

(1) The State Government or the Central Government, as the case may be, may, at any time, having regard to the matters specified in sub-section (2), by general or special order, direct that any person or class of persons shall not be removed from the…

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SECTION 302 BNSS – Power to require attendance of prisoners

(1) Whenever, in the course of an inquiry, trial or proceeding under this Sanhita, it appears to a Criminal Court,- (a) that a person confined or detained in a prison should be brought before the Court for answering to a charge of an offence, or…

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SECTION 301 BNSS – Definitions

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…

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