Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) 2023 Explorer

(1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (2) The provisions of this Sanhita, other than ...

(1) In this Sanhita, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "audio-video electronic means" shall include use of any...

(1) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in any law, to a Magistrate without any qualifying words, Magis...

(1) All offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 shall be investigated, inquired into, tried, and otherwise deal...

Nothing contained in this Sanhita shall, in the absence of a specific provision to the contrary, affect any special or l...

Besides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law, other than this Sanhita, there shall be, in every Stat...

(1) Every State shall be a sessions division or shall consist of sessions divisions; and every sessions divisions shall,...

(1) The State Government shall establish a Court of Session for every sessions division. (2) Every Court of Session shal...

(1) In every district there shall be established as many Courts of Judicial Magistrates of the first class and of the se...

(1) In every district, the High Court shall appoint a Judicial Magistrate of the first class to be the Chief Judicial Ma...

(1) The High Court may, if requested by the Central or State Government so to do, confer upon any person who holds or ha...

(1) Subject to the control of the High Court, the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, from time to time, define the local lim...

(1) Every Chief Judicial Magistrate shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge; and every other Judicial Magistrate shal...

(1) In every district, the State Government may appoint as many persons as it thinks fit to be Executive Magistrates and...

The State Government may appoint, for such term as it may think fit, Executive Magistrates or any police officer not bel...

(1) Subject to the control of the State Government, the District Magistrate may, from time to time, define the local lim...

(1) All Executive Magistrates shall be subordinate to the District Magistrate, and every Executive Magistrate (other tha...

(1) For every High Court, the Central Government or the State Government shall, after consultation with the High Court, ...

(1) The State Government shall appoint in every district one or more Assistant Public Prosecutors for conducting prosecu...

(1) The State Government may establish,— (a) a Directorate of Prosecution in the State consisting of a Director of Prose...

Subject to the other provisions of this Sanhita,— (a) any offence under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 may be tried b...

(1) A High Court may pass any sentence authorised by law. (2) A Sessions Judge or Additional Sessions Judge may pass any...

(1) The Court of a Chief Judicial Magistrate may pass any sentence authorised by law except a sentence of death or of im...

(1) The Court of a Magistrate may award such term of imprisonment in default of payment of fine as is authorised by law:...

(1) When a person is convicted at one trial of two or more offences, the Court may, subject to the provisions of section...

(1) In conferring powers under this Sanhita, the High Court or the State Government, as the case may be, may, by order, ...

Whenever any person holding an office in the service of Government who has been invested by the High Court or the State ...

(1) The High Court or the State Government, as the case may be, may withdraw all or any of the powers conferred by it un...

(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Sanhita, the powers and duties of a Judge or Magistrate may be exercised or ...

Police officers superior in rank to an officer in charge of a police station may exercise the same powers, throughout th...

Every person is bound to assist a Magistrate or police officer reasonably demanding his aid— (a) in the taking or preven...

When a warrant is directed to a person other than a police officer, any other person may aid in the execution of such wa...

(1) Every person, aware of the commission of, or of the intention of any other person to commit, any offence punishable ...

(1) Every officer employed in connection with the affairs of a village and every person residing in a village shall fort...

(1) Any police officer may without an order from a Magistrate and without a warrant, arrest any person— (a) who commits,...

Every police officer while making an arrest shall— (a) bear an accurate, visible and clear identification of his name wh...

The State Government shall— (a) establish a police control room in every district and at State level; (b) designate a po...

When any person is arrested and interrogated by the police, he shall be entitled to meet an advocate of his choice durin...

(1) When any person who, in the presence of a police officer, has committed or has been accused of committing a non-cogn...

(1) Any private person may arrest or cause to be arrested any person who in his presence commits a non-bailable and cogn...

(1) When any offence is committed in the presence of a Magistrate, whether Executive or Judicial, within his local juris...

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 35 and sections 39 to 41 (both inclusive), no member of the Armed Forc...

(1) In making an arrest the police officer or other person making the same shall actually touch or confine the body of t...

(1) If any person acting under a warrant of arrest, or any police officer having authority to arrest, has reason to beli...

A police officer may, for the purpose of arresting without warrant any person whom he is authorised to arrest, pursue su...

The person arrested shall not be subjected to more restraint than is necessary to...

(1) Every police officer or other person arresting any person without warrant shall forthwith communicate to him full pa...

(1) Every police officer or other person making any arrest under this Sanhita shall forthwith give the information regar...

(1) Whenever,— (i) a person is arrested by a police officer under a warrant which does not provide for the taking of bai...

The police officer or other person making any arrest under this Sanhita may, immediately after the arrest is made, take ...

(1) When a person is arrested on a charge of committing an offence of such a nature and alleged to have been committed u...

(1) When a person is arrested on a charge of committing an offence of rape or an attempt to commit rape and there are re...

(1) When any person is arrested, he shall be examined by a medical officer in the service of the Central Government or a...

Where a person is arrested on a charge of committing an offence and his identification by any other person or persons is...

(1) When any officer in charge of a police station or any police officer making an investigation under Chapter XIII requ...

It shall be the duty of the person having the custody of an accused to take...

A police officer making an arrest without warrant shall, without unnecessary delay and subject to the provisions herein ...

No police officer shall detain in custody a person arrested without warrant for a longer period than under all the circu...

Officers in charge of police stations shall report to the District Magistrate, or, if he so directs, to the Sub-division...

No person who has been arrested by a police officer shall be discharged except on his bond, or bail bond, or under the s...

(1) If a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the person from whose custody he escaped or was rescued may imm...

No arrest shall be made except in accordance with the provisions of this Sanhita or any other law for the time being in ...

Every summons issued by a Court under this Sanhita shall be,— (i) in writing, in duplicate, signed by the presiding offi...

(1) Every summons shall be served by a police officer, or subject to such rules as the State Government may make in this...

(1) Service of a summons on a company or corporation may be effected by serving it on the Director, Manager, Secretary o...

Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving one o...

If service cannot by the exercise of due diligence be effected as provided in section 64, section 65 or section 66, the ...

(1) Where the person summoned is in the active service of the Government, the Court issuing the summons shall ordinarily...

When a Court desires that a summons issued by it shall be served at any place outside its local jurisdiction, it shall o...

(1) When a summons issued by a Court is served outside its local jurisdiction, and in any case where the officer who has...

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding sections of this Chapter, a Court issuing a summons to a witness...

(1) Every warrant of arrest issued by a Court under this Sanhita shall be in writing, signed by the presiding officer of...

(1) Any Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person may in its discretion direct by endorsement on the warrant ...

(1) A warrant of arrest shall ordinarily be directed to one or more police officers; but the Court issuing such a warran...

(1) The Chief Judicial Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class may direct a warrant to any person within his local...

A warrant directed to any police officer may also be executed by any other police officer whose name is endorsed upon th...

The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall notify the substance thereof to the person to be ...

The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to the provisions of section 73 as to se...

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(1) When a warrant is to be executed outside the local jurisdiction of the Court issuing it, such Court may, instead of ...

(1) When a warrant directed to a police officer is to be executed beyond the local jurisdiction of the Court issuing the...

(1) When a warrant of arrest is executed outside the district in which it was issued, the person arrested shall, unless ...

(1) The Executive Magistrate or District Superintendent of Police or Commissioner of Police shall, if the person arreste...

(1) If any Court has reason to believe (whether after taking evidence or not) that any person against whom a warrant has...

(1) The Court issuing a proclamation under section 84 may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, at any time after the ...

The Court may, on the written request from a police officer not below the rank of the Superintendent of Police or Commis...

(1) If any claim is preferred to, or objection made to the attachment of, any property attached under section 85, within...

(1) If the proclaimed person appears within the time specified in the proclamation, the Court shall make an order releas...

Any person referred to in sub-section (3) of section 88, who is aggrieved by any refusal to deliver property or the proc...

A Court may, in any case in which it is empowered by this Sanhita to issue a summons for the appearance of any person, i...

When any person for whose appearance or arrest the officer presiding in any Court is empowered to issue a summons or war...

When any person who is bound by any bond or bail bond taken under this Sanhita to appear before a Court, does not appear...

The provisions contained in this Chapter relating to summons and warrant, and their issue, service and execution, shall,...

(1) Whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that the production of any document, elect...

(1) If any document, parcel or thing in the custody of a postal authority is, in the opinion of the District Magistrate,...

(1) Where— (a) any Court has reason to believe that a person to whom a summons order under section 94 or a requisition u...

(1) If a District Magistrate, Sub-divisional Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class, upon information and after suc...

(1) Where— (a) any newspaper, or book; or (b) any document, wherever printed, appears to the State Government to contain...

(1) Any person having any interest in any newspaper, book or other document, in respect of which a declaration of forfei...

If any District Magistrate, Sub-divisional Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class has reason to believe that any pe...

Upon complaint made on oath of the abduction or unlawful detention of a woman, or a female child for any unlawful purpos...

The provisions of sections 32, 72, 74, 76, 79, 80 and 81 shall, so far as may be, apply to all search-warrants issued un...

(1) Whenever any place liable to search or inspection under this Chapter is closed, any person residing in, or being in ...

When, in the execution of a search-warrant at any place beyond the local jurisdiction of the Court which issued the same...

The process of conducting search of a place or taking possession of any property, article or thing under this Chapter or...

(1) Any police officer may seize any property which may be alleged or suspected to have been stolen, or which may be fou...

(1) Where a police officer making an investigation has reason to believe that any property is derived or obtained, direc...

Any Magistrate may direct a search to be made in his presence of any place for...

Any Court may, if it thinks fit, impound any document or thing produced before...

(1) Where a Court in the territories to which this Sanhita extends (hereafter in this section referred to as the said te...

In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "contracting State" means any country or place outside Indi...

(1) If, in the course of an investigation into an offence, an application is made by the investigating officer or any of...

(1) Upon receipt of a letter of request from a Court or an authority in a country or place outside India competent to is...

(1) Where a Court in India, in relation to a criminal matter, desires that a warrant for arrest of any person to attend ...

(1) Where a Court in India has reasonable grounds to believe that any property obtained by any person is derived or obta...

(1) The Court shall, under sub-section (1), or on receipt of a letter of request under sub-section (3) of section 115, d...

(1) Where any officer conducting an inquiry or investigation under section 116 has a reason to believe that any property...

(1) The Court may appoint the District Magistrate of the area where the property is situated, or any other officer that ...

(1) If as a result of the inquiry, investigation or survey under section 116, the Court has reason to believe that all o...

(1) The Court may, after considering the explanation, if any, to the show-cause notice issued under section 119 and the ...

(1) Where the Court makes a declaration that any property stands forfeited to the Central Government under section 120 a...

Where after the making of an order under sub-section (1) of section 117 or the issue of a notice under section 119, any ...

Every letter of request, summons or warrant, received by the Central Government from, and every letter of request, summo...

The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that the application of this Chapter in rela...

(1) When a Court of Session or Court of a Magistrate of the first class convicts a person of any of the offences specifi...

(1) When an Executive Magistrate receives information that any person is likely to commit a breach of the peace or distu...

(1) When an Executive Magistrate receives information that there is within his local jurisdiction any person who, within...

When an Executive Magistrate receives information that there is within his local jurisdiction a person taking precaution...

When an Executive Magistrate receives information that there is within his local jurisdiction a person who— (a) is by ha...

When a Magistrate acting under section 126, section 127, section 128 or section 129, deems it necessary to require any p...

If the person in respect of whom such order is made is present in Court, it shall be read over to him, or, if he so desi...

If such person is not present in Court, the Magistrate shall issue a summons requiring him to appear, or, when such pers...

Every summons or warrant issued under section 132 shall be accompanied by a copy of the order made under section 130, an...

The Magistrate may, if he sees sufficient cause, dispense with the personal attendance of any person called upon to show...

(1) When an order under section 130 has been read or explained under section 131 to a person present in Court, or when a...

If, upon such inquiry, it is proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour, as the cas...

If, on an inquiry under section 135, it is not proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace or maintaining good beh...

(1) If any person, in respect of whom an order requiring security is made under section 125 or section 136, is at the ti...

The bond or bail bond to be executed by any such person shall bind him to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, as ...

(1) A Magistrate may refuse to accept any surety offered, or may reject any surety previously accepted by him or his pre...

(1) (a) If any person ordered to give security under section 125 or section 136 does not give such security on or before...

(1) Whenever the District Magistrate in the case of an order passed by an Executive Magistrate under section 136, or the...

(1) When a person for whose appearance a summons or warrant has been issued under the proviso to sub-section (3) of sect...

(1) If any person having sufficient means neglects or refuses to maintain— (a) his wife, unable to maintain herself; or ...

(1) Proceedings under section 144 may be taken against any person in any district— (a) where he is; or (b) where he or h...

(1) On proof of a change in the circumstances of any person, receiving, under section 144 a monthly allowance for the ma...

A copy of the order of maintenance or interim maintenance and expenses of proceedings, as the case may be, shall be give...

(1) Any Executive Magistrate or officer in charge of a police station or, in the absence of such officer in charge, any ...

(1) If any assembly referred to in sub-section (1) of section 148 cannot otherwise be dispersed, and it is necessary for...

When the public security is manifestly endangered by any such assembly and no Executive Magistrate can be communicated w...

(1) No prosecution against any person for any act purporting to be done under section 148, section 149 or section 150 sh...

(1) Whenever a District Magistrate or a Sub-divisional Magistrate or any other Executive Magistrate specially empowered ...

(1) The order shall, if practicable, be served on the person against whom it is made, in the manner herein provided for ...

The person against whom such order is made shall— (a) perform, within the time and in the manner specified in the order,...

If the person against whom an order is made under section 154 does not perform such act or appear and show cause, he sha...

(1) Where an order is made under section 152 for the purpose of preventing obstruction, nuisance or danger to the public...

(1) If the person against whom an order under section 152 is made appears and shows cause against the order, the Magistr...

The Magistrate may, for the purposes of an inquiry under section 156 or section 157— (a) direct a local investigation to...

(1) Where the Magistrate directs a local investigation by any person under section 158, the Magistrate may— (a) furnish ...

(1) When an order has been made absolute under section 155 or section 157, the Magistrate shall give notice of the same ...

(1) If a Magistrate making an order under section 152 considers that immediate measures should be taken to prevent immin...

A District Magistrate or Sub-divisional Magistrate, or any other Executive Magistrate or Deputy Commissioner of Police e...

(1) In cases where, in the opinion of a District Magistrate, a Sub-divisional Magistrate or any other Executive Magistra...

(1) Whenever an Executive Magistrate is satisfied from a report of a police officer or upon other information that a dis...

(1) If the Magistrate at any time after making the order under sub-section (1) of section 164 considers the case to be o...

(1) Whenever an Executive Magistrate is satisfied from the report of a police officer or upon other information, that a ...

(1) Whenever a local inquiry is necessary for the purposes of section 164, section 165 or section 166, a District Magist...

Every police officer may interpose for the purpose of preventing, and shall, to the best of his ability, prevent, the co...

Every police officer receiving information of a design to commit any cognizable offence shall communicate such informati...

(1) A police officer knowing of a design to commit any cognizable offence may arrest, without orders from a Magistrate a...

A police officer may of his own authority interpose to prevent any injury attempted to be committed in his view to any p...

(1) All persons shall be bound to conform to the lawful directions of a police officer given in fulfilment of any of his...

(1) Every information relating to the commission of a cognizable offence, irrespective of the area where the offence is ...

(1) When information is given to an officer in charge of a police station of the commission within the limits of such st...

(1) Any officer in charge of a police station may, without the order of a Magistrate, investigate any cognizable case wh...

(1) If, from information received or otherwise, an officer in charge of a police station has reason to suspect the commi...

(1) Every report sent to a Magistrate under section 176 shall, if the State Government so directs, be submitted through ...

The Magistrate, on receiving a report under section 176, may direct an investigation, or, if he thinks fit, at once proc...

(1) Any police officer making an investigation under this Chapter may, by order in writing, require the attendance befor...

(1) Any police officer making an investigation under this Chapter, or any police officer not below such rank as the Stat...

(1) No statement made by any person to a police officer in the course of an investigation under this Chapter, shall, if ...

(1) No police officer or other person in authority shall offer or make, or cause to be offered or made, any such inducem...

(1) Any Magistrate of the District in which the information about commission of any offence has been registered, may, wh...

(1) Where, during the stage when an offence of committing rape or attempt to commit rape is under investigation, it is p...

(1) Whenever an officer in charge of a police station or a police officer making an investigation has reasonable grounds...

(1) An officer in charge of a police station or a police officer not being below the rank of sub-inspector making an inv...

(1) Whenever any person is arrested and detained in custody, and it appears that the investigation cannot be completed w...

When any subordinate police officer has made any investigation under this Chapter, he shall report the result of such in...

If, upon an investigation under this Chapter, it appears to the officer in charge of the police station that there is no...

(1) If, upon an investigation under this Chapter, it appears to the officer in charge of the police station that there i...

No complainant or witness on his way to any Court shall be required to accompany a police officer, or shall be subjected...

(1) Every police officer making an investigation under this Chapter shall day by day enter his proceedings in the invest...

(1) Every investigation under this Chapter shall be completed without unnecessary delay. (2) The investigation in relati...

(1) When the officer in charge of a police station or some other police officer specially empowered by the State Governm...

(1) A police officer proceeding under section 194 may, by order in writing, summon two or more persons as aforesaid for ...

(1) When the case is of the nature referred to in clause (i) or clause (ii) of sub-section (3) of section 194, the neare...

Every offence shall ordinarily be inquired into and tried by a Court within whose...

(a) When it is uncertain in which of several local areas an offence was committed; or (b) where an offence is committed ...

When an act is an offence by reason of anything which has been done and of a consequence which has ensued, the offence m...

When an act is an offence by reason of its relation to any other act which is also an offence or which would be an offen...

(1) Any offence of dacoity, or of dacoity with murder, of belonging to a gang of dacoits, or of escaping from custody, m...

(1) Any offence which includes cheating, may, if the deception is practised by means of electronic communications or let...

When an offence is committed whilst the person by or against whom, or the thing in respect of which, the offence is comm...

Where— (a) the offences committed by any person are such that he may be charged with, and tried at one trial for, each s...

Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisions of this Chapter, the State Government may direct that any...

Where two or more Courts have taken cognizance of the same offence and a question arises as to which of them ought to in...

(1) When a Magistrate of the first class sees reason to believe that any person within his local jurisdiction has commit...

When an offence is committed outside India— (a) by a citizen of India, whether on the high seas or elsewhere; or (b) by ...

When any offence alleged to have been committed in a territory outside India is being inquired into or tried under the p...

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, any Magistrate of the first class, and any Magistrate of the second class...

When a Magistrate takes cognizance of an offence under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 210, the accused shall, ...

(1) Any Chief Judicial Magistrate may, after taking cognizance of an offence, make over the case for inquiry or trial to...

Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Sanhita or by any other law for the time being in force, no Court of Sess...

An Additional Sessions Judge shall try such cases as the Sessions Judge of the division may, by general or special order...

(1) No Court shall take cognizance— (a) (i) of any offence punishable under sections 206 to 223 (both inclusive but excl...

A witness or any other person may file a complaint in relation to an offence...

(1) No Court shall take cognizance of— (a) any offence punishable under Chapter VII or under section 196, section 299 or...

(1) When any person who is or was a Judge or Magistrate or a public servant not removable from his office save by or wit...

(1) No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under sections 81 to 84 (both inclusive) of the Bharatiya Ny...

No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 except upo...

No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under section 67 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 where the ...

(1) No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under section 356 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 excep...

(1) A Magistrate having jurisdiction while taking cognizance of an offence on complaint shall examine upon oath the comp...

If the complaint is made to a Magistrate who is not competent to take cognizance of the offence, he shall,— (a) if the c...

(1) Any Magistrate, on receipt of a complaint of an offence of which he is authorised to take cognizance or which has be...

If, after considering the statements on oath (if any) of the complainant and of the witnesses and the result of the inqu...

(1) If in the opinion of a Magistrate taking cognizance of an offence there is sufficient ground for proceeding, and the...

(1) Whenever a Magistrate issues a summons, he may, if he sees reason so to do, dispense with the personal attendance of...

(1) If, in the opinion of a Magistrate taking cognizance of a petty offence, the case may be summarily disposed of under...

In any case where the proceeding has been instituted on a police report, the Magistrate shall without delay, and in no c...

Where, in a case instituted otherwise than on a police report, it appears to the Magistrate issuing process under sectio...

When in a case instituted on a police report or otherwise, the accused appears or is brought before the Magistrate and i...

(1) When in a case instituted otherwise than on a police report (hereinafter referred to as a complaint case), it is mad...

(1) Every charge under this Sanhita shall state the offence with which the accused is charged. (2) If the law which crea...

(1) The charge shall contain such particulars as to the time and place of the alleged offence, and the person (if any) a...

When the nature of the case is such that the particulars mentioned in sections 234 and 235 do not give the accused suffi...

In every charge words used in describing an offence shall be deemed to have been used in the sense attached to them resp...

No error in stating either the offence or the particulars required to be stated in the charge, and no omission to state ...

(1) Any Court may alter or add to any charge at any time before judgment is pronounced. (2) Every such alteration or add...

Whenever a charge is altered or added to by the Court after the commencement of the trial, the prosecutor and the accuse...

(1) For every distinct offence of which any person is accused there shall be a separate charge, and every such charge sh...

(1) When a person is accused of more offences than one of the same kind committed within the space of twelve months from...

(1) If, in one series of acts so connected together as to form the same transaction, more offences than one are committe...

(1) If a single act or series of acts is of such a nature that it is doubtful which of several offences the facts which ...

(1) When a person is charged with an offence consisting of several particulars, a combination of some only of which cons...

The following persons may be charged and tried together, namely:— (a) persons accused of the same offence committed in t...

When a charge containing more heads than one is framed against the same person, and when a conviction has been had on on...

In every trial before a Court of Session, the prosecution shall be conducted by a...

When the accused appears or is brought before the Court, in pursuance of a commitment of the case under section 232, or ...

(1) The accused may prefer an application for discharge within a period of sixty days from the date of commitment of the...

(1) If, after such consideration and hearing as aforesaid, the Judge is of opinion that there is ground for presuming th...

If the accused pleads guilty, the Judge shall record the plea and may, in his...

If the accused refuses to plead, or does not plead, or claims to be tried or is not convicted under section 252, the Jud...

(1) On the date so fixed, the Judge shall proceed to take all such evidence as may be produced in support of the prosecu...

If, after taking the evidence for the prosecution, examining the accused and hearing the prosecution and the defence on ...

(1) Where the accused is not acquitted under section 255, he shall be called upon to enter on his defence and adduce any...

When the examination of the witnesses (if any) for the defence is complete, the prosecutor shall sum up his case and the...

(1) After hearing arguments and points of law (if any), the Judge shall give a judgment in the case, as soon as possible...

In a case where a previous conviction is charged under the provisions of sub-section (7) of section 234, and the accused...

(1) A Court of Session taking cognizance of an offence under sub-section (2) of section 222 shall try the case in accord...

When, in any warrant-case instituted on a police report, the accused appears or is brought before a Magistrate at the co...

(1) The accused may prefer an application for discharge within a period of sixty days from the date of supply of copies ...

(1) If, upon such consideration, examination, if any, and hearing, the Magistrate is of opinion that there is ground for...

If the accused pleads guilty, the Magistrate shall record the plea and may, in his...

(1) If the accused refuses to plead or does not plead, or claims to be tried or the Magistrate does not convict the accu...

(1) The accused shall then be called upon to enter upon his defence and produce his evidence; and if the accused puts in...

(1) When, in any warrant-case instituted otherwise than on a police report, the accused appears or is brought before a M...

(1) If, upon taking all the evidence referred to in section 267, the Magistrate considers, for reasons to be recorded, t...

(1) If, when such evidence has been taken, or at any previous stage of the case, the Magistrate is of opinion that there...

The accused shall then be called upon to enter upon his defence and produce his evidence; and the provisions of section ...

(1) If, in any case under this Chapter in which a charge has been framed, the Magistrate finds the accused not guilty, h...

When the proceedings have been instituted upon complaint, and on any day fixed for the hearing of the case, the complain...

(1) If, in any case instituted upon complaint or upon information given to a police officer or to a Magistrate, one or m...

When in a summons-case the accused appears or is brought before the Magistrate, the particulars of the offence of which ...

If the accused pleads guilty, the Magistrate shall record the plea as nearly as possible in the words used by the accuse...

(1) Where a summons has been issued under section 229 and the accused desires to plead guilty to the charge without appe...

(1) If the Magistrate does not convict the accused under section 275 or section 276, the Magistrate shall proceed to hea...

(1) If the Magistrate, upon taking the evidence referred to in section 277 and such further evidence, if any, as he may,...

(1) If the summons has been issued on complaint, and on the day appointed for the appearance of the accused, or any day ...

If a complainant, at any time before a final order is passed in any case under this Chapter, satisfies the Magistrate th...

In any summons-case instituted otherwise than upon complaint, a Magistrate of the first class or, with the previous sanc...

When in the course of the trial of a summons-case relating to an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term exceedi...

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Sanhita— (a) any Chief Judicial Magistrate; (b) Magistrate of the first c...

The High Court may confer on any Magistrate invested with the powers of a Magistrate of the second class power to try su...

(1) In trials under this Chapter, the procedure specified in this Sanhita for the trial of summons-case shall be followe...

In every case tried summarily, the Magistrate shall enter, in such form as the State Government may direct, the followin...

In every case tried summarily in which the accused does not plead guilty, the Magistrate shall record the substance of t...

(1) Every such record and judgment shall be written in the language of the Court. (2) The High Court may authorise any M...

(1) This Chapter shall apply in respect of an accused against whom— (a) the report has been forwarded by the officer in ...

(1) A person accused of an offence may file an application for plea bargaining within a period of thirty days from the d...

In working out a mutually satisfactory disposition under clause (a) of sub-section (4) of section 290, the Court shall f...

Where in a meeting under section 291, a satisfactory disposition of the case has been worked out, the Court shall prepar...

Where a satisfactory disposition of the case has been worked out under section 292, the Court shall dispose of the case ...

The Court shall deliver its judgment in terms of section 293 in the open Court and...

The judgment delivered by the Court under this section shall be final and no appeal (except the special leave petition u...

A Court shall have, for the purposes of discharging its functions under this Chapter, all the powers vested in respect o...

The provisions of section 468 shall apply, for setting off the period of detention undergone by the accused against the ...

The provisions of this Chapter shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other ...

Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, the statements or facts stated by an accused ...

Nothing in this Chapter shall apply to any juvenile or child as defined in section 2 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and P...

In this Chapter,— (a) "detained" includes detained under any law providing for preventive detention; (b) "prison" includ...

(1) Whenever, in the course of an inquiry, trial or proceeding under this Sanhita, it appears to a Criminal Court,— (a) ...

(1) The State Government or the Central Government, as the case may be, may, at any time, having regard to the matters s...

Where the person in respect of whom an order is made under section 302— (a) is by reason of sickness or infirmity unfit ...

Subject to the provisions of section 304, the officer in charge of the prison shall, upon delivery of an order made unde...

The provisions of this Chapter shall be without prejudice to the power of the Court to issue, under section 319, a commi...

The State Government may determine what shall be, for purposes of this Sanhita, the language of each Court within the St...

Except as otherwise expressly provided, all evidence taken in the course of the trial or other proceeding shall be taken...

(1) In all summons-cases tried before a Magistrate, in all inquiries under sections 164 to 167 (both inclusive), and in ...

(1) In all warrant-cases tried before a Magistrate, the evidence of each witness shall, as his examination proceeds, be ...

(1) In all trials before a Court of Session, the evidence of each witness shall, as his examination proceeds, be taken d...

In every case where evidence is taken down under section 310 or section 311,— (a) if the witness gives evidence in the l...

(1) As the evidence of each witness taken under section 310 or section 311 is completed, it shall be read over to him in...

(1) Whenever any evidence is given in a language not understood by the accused, and he is present in Court in person, it...

When a presiding Judge or Magistrate has recorded the evidence of a witness, he shall also record such remarks (if any) ...

(1) Whenever the accused is examined by any Magistrate, or by a Court of Session, the whole of such examination, includi...

When the services of an interpreter are required by any Criminal Court for the interpretation of any evidence or stateme...

Every High Court may, by general rule, prescribe the manner in which the evidence of witnesses and the examination of th...

(1) Whenever, in the course of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita, it appears to a Court or Magis...

(1) If the witness is within the territories to which this Sanhita extends, the commission shall be directed to the Chie...

Upon receipt of the commission, the Chief Judicial Magistrate or such Magistrate as he may appoint in this behalf, shall...

(1) The parties to any proceeding under this Sanhita in which a commission is issued may respectively forward any interr...

(1) After any commission issued under section 319 has been duly executed, it shall be returned, together with the deposi...

In every case in which a commission is issued under section 319, the inquiry, trial or other proceeding may be adjourned...

(1) The provisions of section 321 and so much of section 322 and section 323 as relate to the execution of a commission ...

(1) The deposition of a civil surgeon or other medical witness, taken and attested by a Magistrate in the presence of th...

(1) Any document purporting to be a report of identification under the hand of an Executive Magistrate in respect of a p...

(1) Any document purporting to be a report under the hand of a gazetted officer of any Mint or of any Note Printing Pres...

(1) Any document purporting to be a report under the hand of a Government scientific expert to whom this section applies...

(1) Where any document is filed before any Court by the prosecution or the accused, the particulars of every such docume...

When any application is made to any Court in the course of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita, an...

(1) The evidence of any person whose evidence is of a formal character may be given by affidavit and may, subject to all...

(1) Affidavits to be used before any Court under this Sanhita may be sworn or affirmed before— (a) any Judge or Judicial...

In any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita, a previous conviction or acquittal may be proved, in addit...

(1) If it is proved that an accused person has absconded, and that there is no immediate prospect of arresting him, the ...

Where any document or report prepared by a public servant, scientific expert or medical officer is purported to be used ...

(1) A person who has once been tried by a Court of competent jurisdiction for an offence and convicted or acquitted of s...

(1) The Public Prosecutor or Assistant Public Prosecutor in charge of a case may appear and plead without any written au...

(1) Any Magistrate inquiring into or trying a case may permit the prosecution to be conducted by any person other than a...

Any person accused of an offence before a Criminal Court, or against whom proceedings are instituted under this Sanhita,...

(1) Where, in a trial or appeal before a Court, the accused is not represented by an advocate, and where it appears to t...

(1) In this section, "corporation" means an incorporated company or other body corporate, and includes a society registe...

(1) With a view to obtaining the evidence of any person supposed to have been directly or indirectly concerned in or pri...

At any time after commitment of a case but before judgment is passed, the Court to which the commitment is made may, wit...

(1) Where, in regard to a person who has accepted a tender of pardon made under section 343 or section 344, the Public P...

(1) In every inquiry or trial the proceedings shall be continued from day-to-day basis until all the witnesses in attend...

(1) Any Judge or Magistrate may, at any stage of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding, after due notice to the parties...

Any Court may, at any stage of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita, summon any person as a witness...

If a Magistrate of the first class is satisfied that, for the purposes of any investigation or proceeding under this San...

Subject to any rules made by the State Government, any Criminal Court may, if it thinks fit, order payment, on the part ...

(1) In every inquiry or trial, for the purpose of enabling the accused personally to explain any circumstances appearing...

(1) Any party to a proceeding may, as soon as may be, after the close of his evidence, address concise oral arguments, a...

(1) Any person accused of an offence before a Criminal Court shall be a competent witness for the defence and may give e...

Except as provided in sections 343 and 344, no influence, by means of any promise or threat or otherwise, shall be used ...

(1) At any stage of an inquiry or trial under this Sanhita, if the Judge or Magistrate is satisfied, for reasons to be r...

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Sanhita or in any other law for the time being in force, when a person de...

If the accused, though not a person of unsound mind, cannot be made to understand the proceedings, the Court may proceed...

(1) Where, in the course of any inquiry into, or trial of, an offence, it appears from the evidence that any person not ...

(1) The offences punishable under the sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 specified in the first two columns o...

The Public Prosecutor or Assistant Public Prosecutor in charge of a case may, with the consent of the Court, at any time...

(1) If, in the course of any inquiry into an offence or a trial before a Magistrate in any district, the evidence appear...

If, in any inquiry into an offence or a trial before a Magistrate, it appears to him at any stage of the proceedings bef...

(1) Where a person, having been convicted of an offence punishable under Chapter X or Chapter XVII of the Bharatiya Nyay...

(1) Whenever a Magistrate is of opinion, after hearing the evidence for the prosecution and the accused, that the accuse...

(1) Whenever any Judge or Magistrate, after having heard and recorded the whole or any part of the evidence in any inqui...

(1) The place in which any Criminal Court is held for the purpose of inquiring into or trying any offence shall be deeme...

(1) When a Magistrate holding an inquiry has reason to believe that the person against whom the inquiry is being held is...

(1) If at the trial of any person before a Magistrate or Court of Session, it appears to the Magistrate or Court that su...

(1) Whenever a person if found under section 367 or section 368 to be incapable of entering defence by reason of unsound...

(1) Whenever an inquiry or a trial is postponed under section 367 or section 368, the Magistrate or Court, as the case m...

(1) If, when the accused appears or is again brought before the Magistrate or Court, as the case may be, the Magistrate ...

When the accused appears to be of sound mind at the time of inquiry or trial, and the Magistrate is satisfied from the e...

Whenever any person is acquitted upon the ground that, at the time at which he is alleged to have committed an offence, ...

(1) Whenever the finding states that the accused person committed the act alleged, the Magistrate or Court before whom o...

The State Government may empower the officer in charge of the jail in which a person is confined under the provisions of...

If a person is detained under the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 369, and in the case of a person detained in ...

(1) If a person is detained under the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 369, or section 374, and such Inspector-G...

(1) Whenever any relative or friend of any person detained under the provisions of section 369 or section 374 desires th...

(1) When, upon an application made to it in this behalf or otherwise, any Court is of opinion that it is expedient in th...

(1) Any person on whose application any Court other than a High Court has refused to make a complaint under sub-section ...

Any Court dealing with an application made to it for filing a complaint under section 379 or an appeal under section 380...

(1) A Magistrate to whom a complaint is made under section 379 or section 380 shall, notwithstanding anything contained ...

(1) If, at the time of delivery of any judgment or final order disposing of any judicial proceeding, a Court of Session ...

(1) When any such offence as is described in section 210, section 213, section 214, section 215 or section 267 of the Bh...

(1) If the Court in any case considers that a person accused of any of the offences referred to in section 384 and commi...

When the State Government so directs, any Registrar or any Sub-Registrar appointed under the Registration Act, 1908, sha...

When any Court has under section 384 adjudged an offender to punishment, or has under section 385 forwarded him to a Mag...

If any witness or person called to produce a document or thing before a Criminal Court refuses to answer such questions ...

(1) If any witness being summoned to appear before a Criminal Court is legally bound to appear at a certain place and ti...

(1) Any person sentenced by any Court other than a High Court under section 383, section 384, section 388, or section 38...

Except as provided in sections 383, 384, 388 and 389, no Judge of a Criminal Court (other than a Judge of a High Court) ...

(1) The judgment in every trial in any Criminal Court of original jurisdiction shall be pronounced in open Court by the ...

(1) Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Sanhita, every judgment referred to in section 392,— (a) shall be wri...

(1) When any person, having been convicted by a Court in India of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term of ...

(1) When a Court imposes a sentence of fine or a sentence (including a sentence of death) of which fine forms a part, th...

(1) Every State Government in co-ordination with the Central Government shall prepare a scheme for providing funds for t...

All hospitals, public or private, whether run by the Central Government, the State Government, local bodies or any other...

Every State Government shall prepare and notify a Witness Protection Scheme...

(1) Whenever any person causes a police officer to arrest another person, if it appears to the Magistrate by whom the ca...

(1) Whenever any complaint of a non-cognizable offence is made to a Court, the Court, if it convicts the accused, may, i...

(1) When any person not under twenty-one years of age is convicted of an offence punishable with fine only or with impri...

Where in any case the Court could have dealt with,— (a) an accused person under section 401 or under the provisions of t...

Save as otherwise provided by this Sanhita or by any other law for the time being in force, no Court, when it has signed...

(1) When the accused is sentenced to imprisonment, a copy of the judgment shall, immediately after the pronouncement of ...

The original judgment shall be filed with the record of the proceedings and where the original is recorded in a language...

In cases tried by the Court of Session or a Chief Judicial Magistrate, the Court or such Magistrate, as the case may be,...

(1) When the Court of Session passes a sentence of death, the proceedings shall forthwith be submitted to the High Court...

(1) If, when such proceedings are submitted, the High Court thinks that a further inquiry should be made into, or additi...

In any case submitted under section 407, the High Court— (a) may confirm the sentence, or pass any other sentence warran...

In every case so submitted, the confirmation of the sentence, or any new sentence or order passed by the High Court, sha...

Where any such case is heard before a Bench of Judges and such Judges are equally divided in opinion, the case shall be ...

In cases submitted by the Court of Session to the High Court for the confirmation of a sentence of death, the proper off...

No appeal shall lie from any judgment or order of a Criminal Court except as provided for by this Sanhita or by any othe...

Any person,— (i) who has been ordered under section 136 to give security for keeping the peace or for good behaviour; or...

(1) Any person convicted on a trial held by a High Court in its extraordinary original criminal jurisdiction may appeal ...

Notwithstanding anything in section 415, where an accused person has pleaded guilty and has been convicted on such plea,...

Notwithstanding anything in section 415, there shall be no appeal by a convicted person in any of the following cases, n...

(1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), the State Government may, in any case of conviction on a trial held b...

(1) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), and subject to the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (5),— (a) the D...

Where the High Court has, on appeal, reversed an order of acquittal of an accused person and convicted him and sentenced...

Notwithstanding anything in this Chapter, when more persons than one are convicted in one trial, and an appealable judgm...

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), an appeal to the Court of Session or Sessions Judge shall be heard by ...

Every appeal shall be made in the form of a petition in writing presented by the appellant or his advocate, and every su...

If the appellant is in jail, he may present his petition of appeal and the copies accompanying the same to the officer i...

(1) If upon examining the petition of appeal and copy of the judgment received under section 423 or section 424, the App...

(1) If the Appellate Court does not dismiss the appeal summarily, it shall cause notice of the time and place at which s...

After perusing such record and hearing the appellant or his advocate, if he appears, and the Public Prosecutor if he app...

The rules contained in Chapter XXIX as to the judgment of a Criminal Court of original jurisdiction shall apply, so far ...

(1) Whenever a case is decided on appeal by the High Court under this Chapter, it shall certify its judgment or order to...

(1) Pending any appeal by a convicted person, the Appellate Court may, for reasons to be recorded by it in writing, orde...

When an appeal is presented under section 419, the High Court may issue a warrant directing that the accused be arrested...

(1) In dealing with any appeal under this Chapter, the Appellate Court, if it thinks additional evidence to be necessary...

When an appeal under this Chapter is heard by a High Court before a Bench of Judges and they are divided in opinion, the...

Judgments and orders passed by an Appellate Court upon an appeal shall be final, except in the cases provided for in sec...

(1) Every appeal under section 418 or section 419 shall finally abate on the death of the accused. (2) Every other appea...

(1) Where any Court is satisfied that a case pending before it involves a question as to the validity of any Act, Ordina...

(1) When a question has been so referred, the High Court shall pass such order thereon as it thinks fit, and shall cause...

(1) The High Court or any Sessions Judge may call for and examine the record of any proceeding before any inferior Crimi...

On examining any record under section 438 or otherwise, the High Court or the Sessions Judge may direct the Chief Judici...

(1) In the case of any proceeding the record of which has been called for by himself, the Sessions Judge may exercise al...

An Additional Sessions Judge shall have and may exercise all the powers of a Sessions Judge under this Chapter in respec...

(1) In the case of any proceeding the record of which has been called for by itself or which otherwise comes to its know...

(1) Whenever one or more persons convicted at the same trial makes or make application to a High Court for revision and ...

Save as otherwise expressly provided by this Sanhita, no party has any right to be heard either personally or by an advo...

When a case is revised under this Chapter by the High Court or a Sessions Judge, it or he shall, in the manner provided ...

(1) Whenever it is made to appear to the Supreme Court that an order under this section is expedient for the ends of jus...

(1) Whenever it is made to appear to the High Court— (a) that a fair and impartial inquiry or trial cannot be had in any...

(1) Whenever it is made to appear to a Sessions Judge that an order under this sub-section is expedient for the ends of ...

(1) A Sessions Judge may withdraw any case or appeal from, or recall any case or appeal which he has made over to a Chie...

(1) Any Chief Judicial Magistrate may withdraw any case from, or recall any case which he has made over to, any Magistra...

Any District Magistrate or Sub-divisional Magistrate may— (a) make over, for disposal, any proceeding which has been sta...

A Sessions Judge or Magistrate making an order under section 448, section 449, section 450 or section 451 shall record h...

When in a case submitted to the High Court for the confirmation of a sentence of death, the Court of Session receives th...

When a sentence of death is passed by the High Court in appeal or in revision, the Court of Session shall, on receiving ...

(1) Where a person is sentenced to death by the High Court and an appeal from its judgment lies to the Supreme Court und...

If a woman sentenced to death is found to be pregnant, the High Court shall...

(1) Except when otherwise provided by any law for the time being in force, the State Government may direct in what place...

(1) Where the accused is sentenced to imprisonment for life or to imprisonment for a term in cases other than those prov...

Every warrant for the execution of a sentence of imprisonment shall be directed to the officer in charge of the jail or ...

When the prisoner is to be confined in a jail, the warrant shall be lodged with the...

(1) When an offender has been sentenced to pay a fine, but no such payment has been made, the Court passing the sentence...

A warrant issued under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 461 by any Court may be executed within the local jurisd...

Notwithstanding anything in this Sanhita or in any other law for the time being in force, when an offender has been sent...

(1) When an offender has been sentenced to fine only and to imprisonment in default of payment of the fine, and the fine...

Every warrant for the execution of a sentence may be issued either by the Judge or Magistrate who passed the sentence, o...

(1) When a sentence of death, imprisonment for life or fine is passed under this Sanhita on an escaped convict, such sen...

(1) When a person already undergoing a sentence of imprisonment is sentenced on a subsequent conviction to imprisonment ...

Where an accused person has, on conviction, been sentenced to imprisonment for a term, not being imprisonment in default...

(1) Nothing in section 466 or section 467 shall be held to excuse any person from any part of the punishment to which he...

When a sentence has been fully executed, the officer executing it shall return the warrant to the Court from which it is...

Any money (other than a fine) payable by virtue of any order made under this Sanhita, and the method of recovery of whic...

(1) A convict under the sentence of death or his legal heir or any other relative may, if he has not already submitted a...

(1) When any person has been sentenced to punishment for an offence, the appropriate Government may, at any time, withou...

The appropriate Government may, without the consent of the person sentenced, commute— (a) a sentence of death, for impri...

Notwithstanding anything contained in section 473, where a sentence of imprisonment for life is imposed on conviction of...

The powers conferred by sections 473 and 474 upon the State Government may, in the case of sentences of death, also be e...

(1) The powers conferred by sections 473 and 474 upon the State Government to remit or commute a sentence, in any case w...

(1) When any person other than a person accused of a non-bailable offence is arrested or detained without warrant by an ...

(1) Where a person has, during the period of investigation, inquiry or trial under this Sanhita of an offence under any ...

(1) When any person accused of, or suspected of, the commission of any non-bailable offence is arrested or detained with...

(1) Before conclusion of the trial and before disposal of the appeal, the Court trying the offence or the Appellate Cour...

(1) When any person has reason to believe that he may be arrested on an accusation of having committed a non-bailable of...

(1) A High Court or Court of Session may direct,— (a) that any person accused of an offence and in custody be released o...

(1) The amount of every bond executed under this Chapter shall be fixed with due regard to the circumstances of the case...

(1) Before any person is released on bond or bail bond, a bond for such sum of money as the police officer or Court, as ...

Every person standing surety to an accused person for his release on bail, shall make a declaration before the Court as ...

(1) As soon as the bond or bail bond has been executed, the person for whose appearance it has been executed shall be re...

If, through mistake, fraud or otherwise, insufficient sureties have been accepted, or if they afterwards become insuffic...

(1) All or any sureties for the attendance and appearance of a person released on bail may at any time apply to a Magist...

When any person is required by any Court or officer to execute a bond or bail bond, such Court or officer may, except in...

(1) Where,— (a) a bond under this Sanhita is for appearance, or for production of property, before a Court and it is pro...

Without prejudice to the provisions of section 491, where a bond or bail bond under this Sanhita is for appearance of a ...

When any surety to a bail bond under this Sanhita becomes insolvent or dies, or when any bond is forfeited under the pro...

When the person required by any Court, or officer to execute a bond is a child, such Court or officer may accept, in lie...

All orders passed under section 491 shall be appealable,— (i) in the case of an order made by a Magistrate, to the Sessi...

The High Court or Court of Session may direct any Magistrate to levy the amount due on a bond for appearance or attendan...

(1) When any property is produced before any Criminal Court or the Magistrate empowered to take cognizance or commit the...

(1) When an investigation, inquiry or trial in any criminal case is concluded, the Court or the Magistrate may make such...

When any person is convicted of any offence which includes, or amounts to, theft or receiving stolen property, and it is...

(1) Any person aggrieved by an order made by a Court or Magistrate under section 498 or section 499, may appeal against ...

(1) On a conviction under section 294, section 295, or sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 356 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sa...

(1) When a person is convicted of an offence by use of criminal force or show of force or by criminal intimidation, and ...

(1) Whenever the seizure of property by any police officer is reported to a Magistrate under the provisions of this Sanh...

(1) If no person within such period establishes his claim to such property, and if the person in whose possession such p...

If the person entitled to the possession of such property is unknown or absent and the property is subject to speedy and...

If any Magistrate not empowered by law to do any of the following things, namely:— (a) to issue a search-warrant under s...

If any Magistrate, not being empowered by law in this behalf, does any of the following things, namely:— (a) attaches an...

No finding, sentence or order of any Criminal Court shall be set aside merely on the ground that the inquiry, trial or o...

(1) If any Court before which a confession or other statement of an accused person recorded, or purporting to be recorde...

(1) No finding, sentence or order by a Court of competent jurisdiction shall be deemed invalid merely on the ground that...

(1) Subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, no finding, sentence or order passed by a Court of competent juris...

No attachment made under this Sanhita shall be deemed unlawful, nor shall any person making the same be deemed a trespas...

For the purposes of this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, "period of limitation" means the period specifi...

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Sanhita, no Court shall take cognizance of an offence of the category specified...

(1) The period of limitation, in relation to an offender, shall commence,— (a) on the date of the offence; or (b) where ...

(1) In computing the period of limitation, the time during which any person has been prosecuting with due diligence anot...

Where the period of limitation expires on a day when the Court is closed, the Court may take cognizance on the day on wh...

In the case of a continuing offence, a fresh period of limitation shall begin to run...

Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, any Court may take cognizance of an offe...

When an offence is tried by the High Court otherwise than under section 447, it shall, in the trial of the offence, obse...

(1) The Central Government may make rules consistent with this Sanhita and the Air Force Act, 1950, the Army Act, 1950, ...

Subject to the power conferred by article 227 of the Constitution, the forms set forth in the Second Schedule, with such...

(1) Every High Court may, with the previous approval of the State Government, make rules— (a) as to the persons who may ...

If the Legislative Assembly of a State by a resolution so permits, the State Government may, after consultation with the...

No Judge or Magistrate shall, except with the permission of the Court to which an appeal lies from his Court, try or com...

No advocate who practices in the Court of any Magistrate shall sit as a Magistrate in that Court or in any Court within ...

A public servant having any duty to perform in connection with the sale of any property under this Sanhita shall not pur...

Nothing in this Sanhita shall be deemed to limit or affect the inherent powers of the High Court to make such orders as ...

Every High Court shall so exercise its superintendence over the Courts of Session and Courts of Judicial Magistrates sub...

All trials, inquires and proceedings under this Sanhita, including— (i) issuance, service and execution of summons and w...

(1) The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 is hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal— (a) if, immediately before...