Section 301 – Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)

CHAPTER XXIV – ATTENDANCE OF PERSONS CONFINED OR DETAINED IN PRISONS

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.