Chapter XXIV — Attendance of Persons Confined or Detained in Prisons

Section 301 — Definitions

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Free to read

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 institution of a like nature.