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CHAPTER X MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER AND TRANQUILLITY · B.–Public nuisances

Section 142: Injunction pending inquiry

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

(1) If a Magistrate making an order under section 133 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.

Now in the BNSS

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

142. Injunction pending inquiry.BNSS 161

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