Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 105, BNSS: Recording of search and seizure through audio video electronic means.
Section 105 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words.
What it replaces
Nothing: the official comparison summary marks this provision as new in the BNSS, with no equivalent in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The whole table: CrPC to BNSS.
The section
105. Recording of search and seizure through audio video electronic means..
The process of conducting search of a place or taking possession of any property, article or thing under this Chapter or under section 185, including preparation of the list of all things seized in the course of such search and seizure and signing of such list by witnesses, shall be recorded through any audio-video electronic means preferably mobile phone and the police officer shall without delay forward such recording to the District Magistrate, Sub-divisional Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate of the first class.The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.
Sources
- India Code: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, section 105 (read 1 September 2026)
- Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BNSS to CrPC (read 1 September 2026)