Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 86, BNSS: Identification and attachment of property of proclaimed person
Section 86 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
86. Identification and attachment of property of proclaimed person.
The Court may, on the written request from a police officer not below the rank of the Superintendent of Police or Commissioner of Police, initiate the process of requesting assistance from a Court or an authority in the contracting State for identification, attachment and forfeiture of property belonging to a proclaimed person in accordance with the procedure provided in Chapter VIII.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 86 (read 1 September 2026)
- Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BNSS to CrPC (read 1 September 2026)