(1) Any police officer making an investigation under this Chapter, or any police
officer not below such rank as the State Government may, by general or special order,
prescribe in this behalf, acting on the requisition of such officer, may examine orally any
person supposed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case.
(2) Such person shall be bound to answer truly all questions relating to such case put
to him by such officer, other than questions the answers to which would have a tendency
to expose him to a criminal charge or to a penalty or forfeiture.
(3) The police officer may reduce into writing any statement made to him in the course
of an examination under this section; and if he does so, he shall make a separate and true
record of the statement of each such person whose statement he records:
Provided that statement made under this sub-section may also be recorded by
audio-video electronic means:
Provided further that the statement of a woman against whom an offence under
section 64, section 66, section 67, section 68, section 70, section 71, section 73, section 74,
section 75, section 76, section 77 or section 78 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 is
alleged to have been committed or attempted, shall be recorded, by a woman police officer
or any woman officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(1) Any police officer making an investigation under this Chapter, or any policeofficer not below such rank as the State Government may, by general or special order,prescribe in this behalf, acting on the requisition of such officer, may examine orally anyperson supposed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case.(2) Such person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[125,124,134,132,130,136,137,126,127,123,129,128,133,111,135,112,121,122,113,114,131],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-bnss","tag-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-2023","tag-bhartiya-nagrik-suraksha-sanhita","tag-bnss-2024-india","tag-bnss-all-sections","tag-bnss-bare-act","tag-bnss-chapter-wise-sections","tag-bnss-fir-section","tag-bnss-full-form","tag-bnss-pdf-download","tag-bnss-sections-in-hindi","tag-bnss-sections-list","tag-bnss-vs-crpc","tag-crpc-replaced-by-bnss","tag-expert-vakil","tag-expert-vakil-bnss","tag-expertvakil","tag-indian-kanoon","tag-indiankanoon","tag-ishan-tathagat","tag-ishantathagat","tag-new-criminal-law-india"],"yoast_head":"\n