The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) (IAST: Bhāratīya Nāgarik Surakśa Saṃhitā; lit.

'Indian Citizen Safety Code'), is the main legislation on procedure for administration of substantive criminal law in India.

[17] It empowers police officers to compel an accused to produce their digital devices to access their contents for investigation purposes.

It also gives police the discretion to seize and attach the property of an accused before a trial has taken place.

[18] This supersedes the Supreme Court's decision in Lalita Kumari vs Government of Uttar Pradesh in 2013, wherein the court found that investigating officers had undue powers in deciding whether an FIR was warranted.