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BNSS Section 61: Power, on escape, to pursue and retake

Section 61 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with power, on escape, to pursue and retake. It replaces CrPC 60 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 61

61. (1) If a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the person from whose custody he escaped or was rescued may immediately pursue and arrest him in any place in India.

(2) The provisions of section 44 shall apply to arrests under sub-section (1) although the person making any such arrest is not acting under a warrant and is not a police officer having authority to arrest.

Arrest to be made strictly according to Sanhita.

CrPC sections replaced

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