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New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday clarified that an accused does not have an unqualified right to have an advocate continuously present throughout police interrogation, holding that Section 38 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) only guarantees the right to meet a lawyer during interrogation and not the lawyer’s uninterrupted physical presence. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta modified a series of conditions imposed by a trial court and partly af…