LEGAL WORD
Witness protection
Legal term · Criminal justice
Witness protection
- Type: Legal term
- Area of law: Criminal justice
1 What it means
Measures to protect witnesses from threats, under state schemes required by the BNSS.
2 Use it in a sentence
The key witness was placed under witness protection.
3 Make it stick
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