BNSS Section 172-Persons bound to conform to lawful directions of police

(1) All persons shall be bound to conform to the lawful directions of a police officer given in fulfillment of any of his duties under this Chapter.

(2) A police officer may detain or remove any person resisting, refusing, ignoring, or disregarding to conform to any direction given by him under sub-section (1) and may either take such person before a Magistrate or, in petty cases, release him as soon as possible within twenty-four hours.

[Section 172 of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) is a brand-new provision. It had no corresponding section in The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973]