FILE G · GLOSSARY · Magisterial & law-and-order
Remand
MEANING
The magistrate's authorisation of an arrested person's continued custody — a judicial magistrate's power, not an executive one.
An arrestee must reach a magistrate within 24 hours; custody thereafter is remand under BNSS 187 (the old 167 CrPC). Executive magistrates do not remand accused persons — a distinction to keep crisp when police paperwork arrives at the wrong desk.