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.
CHAPTER VII PROCESSES TO COMPEL THE PRODUCTION OF THINGS · B.—Search-warrants
Section 100: Search for persons wrongfully confined
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Corresponding CrPC provision
As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table
Questions on this section
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1. Match List I (provision of the BNSS) with List II (subject matter): List I A. Section 100 B. Section 101 C. Section 108 D. Section 109 List II 1. Magistrate may direct a search to be made in his presence of a place for which he is competent to issue a search-warrant 2. Search-warrant for a person confined in circumstances amounting to an offence 3. Any Court may impound a document or thing produced before it 4. Order for the immediate restoration of a woman, or of a female child, abducted or unlawfully detained for an unlawful purpose Select the correct answer using the codes given below: