CrPC 417BNSS 457

What changed

• The words "or section 23 of the Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920 (5 of 1920), as the case may be;" excluded.

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Under Section 457 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 457

457. Power to appoint place of imprisonment.—(1) Except when otherwise provided by any law for the time being in force, the State Government may direct in what place any person liable to be imprisoned or committed to custody under this Sanhita shall be confined. (2) If any person liable to be imprisoned or committed to custody under this Sanhita is in confinement in a civil jail, the Court or Magistrate ordering the imprisonment or committal may direct that the person be removed to a criminal jail. (3) When a person is removed to a criminal jail under sub -section ( 2), he shall, on being released therefrom, be sent back to the civil jail, unless either— (a) three years have elapsed since he was removed to the criminal jail, in which case he shall be deemed to have been released from the civil jail under section 58 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908); or (b) the Court which ordered his imprisonment in the civil jail has certified to t he officer in charge of the criminal jail that he is entitled to be released under section 58 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).