Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter V: Arrest of Persons
Section 50: Power to seize offensive weapons
In plain words
Whoever makes an arrest can take any offensive weapons the arrested person has on them, and must hand them to the court or officer before whom the person is to be produced.
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Official text
The police officer or other person making any arrest under this Sanhita may, immediately after the arrest is made, take from the person arrested any offensive weapons which he has about his person, and shall deliver all weapons so taken to the Court or officer before which or whom the officer or person making the arrest is required by this Sanhita to produce the person arrested.
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Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 12 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 50
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