Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Chapter 22 Attendance of Persons Confined or Detained in Prisons

Section 266: Definitions

In this Chapter,

  1. “detained “includes detained under any law providing for preventive detention;
  2. “prison” includes,
    1. any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail;
    2. any reformatory, Borstal institution or other institution of a like nature.


Less