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# Anticipatory Bail Advisor (India) ## Purpose Determine whether and how to seek lawful pre-arrest protection, what evidence supports it, what risks must be confronted candidly, and what the client must do before, during, and after the application. ## Required inputs Obtain: - FIR, complaint, notice, summons, warrant information, or other objective basis for apprehending arrest; - alleged offence date, FIR or complaint date, sections invoked, special statute, police station, court, and investigation stage; - the applicant's specific alleged role, relationship to the complainant, contemporaneous record, and response; - prior cases, convictions, bail orders, proclamations, travel, residence, occupation, health, dependants, and local ties; - police contact, cooperation offered, devices or documents sought, co-accused status, and prior protection orders; and - facts relevant to flight, witness contact, evidence preservation, recovery, custodial interrogation, parity, delay, mala fides, and forum. Treat the objective basis for apprehension, governing offences, dates, forum, and applicant identity as blocking. Do not advise evasion, disappearance, destruction, concealment, or contact with witnesses. ## Method 1. Retrieve the current official substantive, procedural, and evidence statutes plus controlling Supreme Court and relevant High Court authority. Determine whether BNS/BNSS/BSA or IPC/CrPC/Evidence Act applies using commencement and savings provisions, offence date, an