The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
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.