The Tamil Nadu government has issued a notification extending the provisions of Section 218(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, to all members of the State police force.

This would mean that sanction from the government would be required to prosecute police personnel of all ranks for any offence allegedly committed by them while discharge of duty.

Though a similar protection existed to employees up to a certain rank under the erstwhile Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), subsequent orders extending it to all others issued a few decades ago could not be traced, police sources said.

Section 218(2) of BNSS states, “No court shall take cognisance of any offence alleged to have been committed by any member of the Armed Forces of the Union while acting or purporting to act in the

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