BNSS Mini Quiz 2

1. Under Section 187 BNSS, the Magistrate may authorise detention in police custody for a term not exceeding 15 days:

Only during the first 15 days from arrest.

In the whole or in parts, at any time during the initial 40 days or 60 days out of the overall 60-day or 90-day detention period, as applicable.

Only after filing of the charge-sheet.

For 15 days in every calendar month.

2. Investigation relates to an offence punishable with death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment for a term of ten years or more. The maximum statutory period relevant to default bail under Section 187 is:

30 days

45 days

60 days

90 days

3. Under Section 187, while an accused remains in police custody, production before the Magistrate is:

Never required after first production.

Required personally for the first time and subsequently every time during police custody.

Always permissible only through audio-video means.

Required only once every seven days.

4. Investigation concerning specified sexual offences under the BNS is required under Section 193 to be completed within:

30 days from FIR.

45 days from arrest.

Two months from the date on which the information was recorded by the officer in charge.

90 days from the first remand.

5. After a police report has been forwarded to the Magistrate, further investigation:

Is absolutely prohibited.

Is permissible, and further report(s) may be forwarded regarding further evidence.

Is permissible only with the consent of the accused.

Is permissible only after conviction.

6. Where proceedings are instituted on a police report, the Magistrate must ordinarily furnish the accused and the victim, where represented by an advocate, copies of the specified documents:

Within 7 days of FIR.

Within 14 days from production or appearance of the accused.

Within 30 days from arrest.

Only after framing of charge.

7. Suppose the documents required to be supplied under Section 230 are extremely voluminous. Which is most accurate?

The Magistrate must physically print every page.

The Magistrate may furnish them electronically or permit inspection in accordance with the statutory proviso.

The prosecution may destroy the documents.

The accused automatically loses the right to inspect them.

8. Under Section 262 BNSS, an accused in the relevant Magistrate-triable proceeding may prefer an application for discharge within:

15 days from arrest.

30 days from FIR.

60 days from the date of supply of copies under Section 230.

90 days from filing of charge-sheet.

9. Proceedings under Section 145 BNSS may be taken against a person in any district:

Only where the husband permanently resides.

Only where the wife resides.

Where he is, where he or his wife resides, where he last resided with his wife in the relevant circumstances, or where his father or mother resides, as applicable.

Only where the marriage was solemnised.

10. For purposes of the maintenance provision in Section 144, the expression “wife” includes:

Only a woman presently married to the respondent.

A divorced woman only if she has not received any settlement.

A woman divorced by, or who has obtained divorce from, her husband and who has not remarried.

Every woman who has ever been married to the respondent.