CrPC 51BNSS 49

What changed

• No Change except the word "whenever" is excluded from clause (ii) of subsection (1).

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Under Section 49 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 51 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 49

49. Search of arrested person.—(1) Whenever,— (i) a person is arrested by a police officer under a warrant which does not provide for the taking of bail, or under a warrant which provides for the taking of bail but the person arrested cannot furnish bail; and (ii) a person is arrested without warrant, or by a private person under a warrant, and cannot legally be admitted to bail, or is unable to furnish bail, the officer making the arrest or, when the arrest is made by a private person, the police officer to whom he makes over the person arrested, may search such person, and place in safe custody all articles, other than necessary wearing -apparel, found upon him and where any article is seized from the arrested person, a receipt showing the articles taken in possession by the police officer shall be given to such person. (2) Whenever it is necessary to cause a female to be searched, the search shall be made by another female with strict regard to decency.