Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter XXIV: Attendance of Persons Confined or Detained in Prisons
Section 301: Definitions
In this Chapter,—-
(a) "detained" includes detained under any law providing for preventive detention;
(b) "prison" includes,—-
(i) any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail;
(ii) any reformatory, Borstal institution or other institution of a like nature.
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