SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 16 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 17 of 100

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Under Bharatiya Nagarik suraksha Samhita(BNSS), the period for default bail in minor offences is capped at?

(a)30 days
(b)45 days
(c)60 days
(d)90 days

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Section 187(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita caps a Magistrate's total detention order during investigation in two tiers:

ninety days: offences punishable with death, life imprisonment or ten years or more
sixty days: any other offence

When the period runs out, the accused 'shall be released on bail' on furnishing it. For minor offences that cap is 60 days → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
30 days — 30 days is not a limit in Section 187. Its caps on total detention are sixty days for lesser offences and ninety for the gravest.
(b)
45 days — 45 days does not appear in Section 187 either. Default bail turns on the sixty-day or ninety-day tier the offence falls in.
(d)
90 days — 90 days is the serious tier: offences punishable with death, life imprisonment or ten years or more. A minor offence falls in the sixty-day tier.

Concept

Default bail is the bail an accused earns when the police do not finish the investigation within the time the law allows. It does not depend on the merits of the case.

The BNSS keeps the clock of the old Section 167 of the CrPC, now Section 187. Once sixty or ninety days of detention have run and the investigation is incomplete, the accused must be released if they furnish bail.

The stem's minor offences is its own label. The statute names only the ninety-day tier, offences punishable with death, life or ten years or more, and puts every other offence in the sixty-day tier.

Key facts

BNSS Section 187 replaces CrPC Section 167, on detention when investigation cannot be completed in twenty-four hours.
Total detention cap: ninety days for offences punishable with death, life or ten years or more, and sixty days for any other offence.
The BNSS replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
The BNSS, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam came into force on 1 July 2024.

Study next

BNSS Section 187(2): fifteen days of police custody, which may be taken in partsThe three new criminal laws: BNS for the IPC, BNSS for the CrPC, BSA for the Evidence ActBail, anticipatory bail and default bail compared

Common traps

Picking 90 days: that is the cap for offences punishable with death, life or ten years or more, not for minor ones.
Confusing the fifteen-day limit on police custody with the sixty-day cap on total detention.

The same sixty-day cap is asked at 15 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.17, framed as offences punishable with less than 10 years.

The court that grants default bail is asked at 18 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.19, keyed Magistrate.

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