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BNSS Section 100: Search for persons wrongfully confined

Section 100 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with search for persons wrongfully confined. It replaces CrPC 97 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 100

100. 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.

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CrPC sections replaced

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