BNSS58
BNSS Section 58: Person arrested not to be detained more than twenty-four hours
Ch V · Arrest of Persons
Gazette p.34
The source extraction gives this section the text of section 59. This text was restored from a secondary source; check it against India Code.
Verbatim · BNSS58. Person arrested not to be detained more than twenty-four hours.— No police officer shall detain in custody a person arrested without warrant for a longer period than under all the circumstances of the case is reasonable, and such period shall not, in the absence of a special order of a Magistrate under section 187, exceed twenty-four hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate's Court, whether having jurisdiction or not.
Corresponds (indicatively) to CrPC 57 of the repealed Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC → BNSS table
Cite as: Section 58, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023)