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BNSS Section 161: Injunction pending inquiry

Section 161 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with injunction pending inquiry. It replaces CrPC 142 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 161

161. (1) If a Magistrate making an order under section 152 considers that immediate measures should be taken to prevent imminent danger or injury of a serious kind to the public, he may issue such an injunction to the person against whom the order was made, as is required to obviate or prevent such danger or injury pending the determination of the matter.

(2) In default of such person forthwith obeying such injunction, the Magistrate may himself use, or cause to be used, such means as he thinks fit to obviate such danger or to prevent such injury.

(3) No suit shall lie in respect of anything done in good faith by a Magistrate under this section.

Magistrate may prohibit repetition or continuance of public nuisance.

CrPC sections replaced

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