BNSS 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

[Old Corresponding Section: Section 266 of The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973]