The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

§57 — Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police station

A police officer making an arrest without warrant shall, without unnecessary delay and subject to the provisions herein contained as to bail, take or send the person arrested before a Magistrate having jurisdiction in the case, or before the officer in charge of a police station.

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Old lawCRPC §56Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police station New lawBNSS §57Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police station

CRPC §56 → BNSS §57 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.

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Official text: Gazette of India via MHA (official) ↗

Official Gazette text: The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023), English PDF as hosted by Ministry of Home Affairs (mha.gov.in, file 250884_2_english_01042024.pdf). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest gazette-bbox parser on 2026-07-14. Automated parse; structural validation + spot verification; full clause-level proofread pending.

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