{"id":369539,"date":"2026-08-13T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=369539"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:29:47","slug":"scope-of-police-custody-under-bnss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scope-of-police-custody-under-bnss\/","title":{"rendered":"Scope of Police Custody under BNSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreme Court rules that Section 187(2) of the BNSS expands the scope of Police Custody under BNSS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About Scope of Police Custody under BNSS<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_369548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369548\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-369548\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-News-Click.jpg?resize=424%2C236&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Scope of Police Custody under BNSS\" width=\"424\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-News-Click.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-News-Click.jpg?resize=768%2C428&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Source-News-Click.jpg?w=929&amp;ssl=1 929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-369548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; News Click<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court held that <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/issues-with-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita\/\">Section 187(2) of BNSS<\/a> enlarges the window during which police custody <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">may be sought.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Case name: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case was<\/span> the<b> State of Andhra Pradesh vs Sudesh Veera Venkata Naga Rajan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Intent: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Court said that the change under the BNSS is<strong> intended for situations where fresh facts, discoveries or leads may emerge during investigation.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Ruling of the court:\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Police custody<\/strong> can now be <strong>sought in parts<\/strong>, but the <strong>total period<\/strong> of police custody <strong>cannot exceed 15 days<\/strong>. <\/span><b>These 15 days can be sought during:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <strong>initial 40 days<\/strong> where the <strong>total permissible remand period is 60 days<\/strong>; or<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <strong>initial 60 days<\/strong> where the <strong>total permissible remand period is 90 days<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court held that a <strong>Magistrate or court <\/strong><\/span><b>cannot impose an absolute and non-extendable limit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on police custody <strong>if it prevents the investigating agency from using Section 187(2) of the BNSS.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under <\/span><b>Section 58 of the BNSS,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a person <strong>arrested<\/strong> by the police <strong>cannot normally be detained for more than 24 hours<\/strong>, unless <strong>detention is authorized by a Magistrate under Section 187<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Section 187 also provides for judicial detention beyond 15 days <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when sufficient grounds exist, subject to the <strong>applicable 60-day or 90-day period<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the BNSS widens the <strong>time-window<\/strong> in which police custody may be sought, but the <strong>maximum total police custody remains 15 days<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Supreme Court rules that Section 187(2) of the BNSS expands the scope of Police Custody under BNSS.\u00a0 About Scope of Police Custody under BNSS The Supreme Court held that Section 187(2) of BNSS enlarges the window during which police custody may be sought. Case name: The case was the State of Andhra Pradesh vs&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scope-of-police-custody-under-bnss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scope of Police Custody under BNSS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,12039],"tags":[11972,10498],"class_list":["post-369539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9-pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}