Accountability Of Police According To New Criminal Laws

New Delhi: The provisions of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 which have bigger transparency and accountability of police are as lower than:

(1) Section 37(b) of BNSS mandates that there will presumably be one designated police officer in every district and at every police station, now no longer lower than the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police responsible for keeping and exhibiting forms to essentially essentially the most safely simple public about substantive points of humans arrested, and so forth.

(2) Section eighty two(2) of BNSS promises that in case of arrest lower than a warrant complete outdoor the district, the police officer making the arrest shall forthwith present forms referring to such arrest and the quarter the positioning the arrested character is being held to the designated police officer and to such police officer of yet an extra district the positioning the arrested character all of your time resides.

(three) Section one zero five of BNSS promises that search and seizure should be audio-video recorded and the police officer shall send such audio-video recording to the District Magistrate, Sub-divisional Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate of top quality straight. Section 185 of BNSS additionally promises that search should be recorded via manner of audio-video electronic methodology and copies of the style of itemizing should be despatched within forty eight hours to the Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence.

(4) Section 176(2) of BNSS requires the police officer to forward the on every and each day groundwork diary itemizing fortnightly to the Magistrate.

(5) Section 176(three) of BNSS mandates the video-recording of the crime scene in case of offences made punishable with seven years or extra.

(6) Section 193 of BNSS mandates that a police itemizing additionally incorporate substantive points of the sequence of custody in case of electronic machine. The Section additionally mandates that the police officer inform the expansion of investigation to the informant or sufferer within 90 days of the investigation. This part extra promises that after submitting of cost sheet, if extra investigation is required, this would be accomplished within 90 days and any extension of time length past 90 days shall enhanced be with the permission of the Court docket.

This changed into observed via the Minister of Nation for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar in a written reply to a matter in the Lok Sabha.

(Mentioned via PIB)