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Section 24 – Sentence of imprisonment in default of fine.– The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 24 – Sentence of imprisonment in default of fine.– (1) The Court of a Magistrate may award such term of imprisonment in…

Section 23 – Sentences which Magistrates may pass.– The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 23 – Sentences which Magistrates may pass.– (1) The Court of a Chief Judicial Magistrate may pass any sentence authorised by law except a…

Section 22 – Sentences which High Courts and Sessions Judges may pass.– The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 22 – Sentences which High Courts and Sessions Judges may pass.- (1) A High Court may pass any sentence authorised…

Section 21 – Courts by which offences are triable.– The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 21 – Courts by which offences are triable.– Subject to the other provisions of this Sanhita,— (a) any offence under the Bharatiya Nyaya…

Section 20 – Directorate of Prosecution.– The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 20 – Directorate of Prosecution.– (1) The State Government may establish,—(a) a Directorate of Prosecution in the State consisting of a Director of Prosecution and as…

Section 19 – Assistant Public Prosecutors. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 19 – Assistant Public Prosecutors. – (1) The State Government shall appoint in every district one or more Assistant Public Prosecutors for conducting prosecutions in…

Section 18 – Public Prosecutors. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 18 – Public Prosecutors. – (1) For every High Court, the Central Government or the State Government shall, after consultation with the High Court, appoint a…

Section 17 – Subordination of Executive Magistrates.  – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 17 – Subordination of Executive Magistrates.  – (1) All Executive Magistrates shall be subordinate to the District Magistrate, and every Executive Magistrate (other than…

Section 16 – Local Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrates.  – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 16 – Local Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrates.  – (1) Subject to the control of the State Government, the District Magistrate may, from time…

Section 15 – Special Executive Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 15 – Special Executive Magistrates. – The State Government may appoint, for such term as it may think fit, Executive Magistrates or any police officer…

Section 14 – Executive Magistrates – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 14 – Executive Magistrates – (1) In every district, the State Government may appoint as many persons as it thinks fit to be Executive Magistrates and…

Section 13 – Subordination of Judicial Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 13 – Subordination of Judicial Magistrates. – (1) Every Chief Judicial Magistrate shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge; and every other Judicial Magistrate…

Section 12 – Local Jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 12 – Local Jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates. – (1) Subject to the control of the High Court, the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, from…

Section 11 – Special Judicial Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 11 – Special Judicial Magistrates. – (1) The High Court may, if requested by the Central or State Government so to do, confer upon any…

Section 10 – Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc.  – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 10 – Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc. – (1) In every district, the High Court…

Section 9 – Courts of Judicial Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 9 – Courts of Judicial Magistrates. – (1) In every district there shall be established as many Courts of Judicial Magistrates of the first…

Section 8 – Court of Session. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 8 – Court of Session. – (1) The State Government shall establish a Court of Session for every sessions division. (2) Every Court of Session…

Section 7 – Territorial divisions. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 7 – Territorial divisions. – (1) Every State shall be a sessions division or shall consist of sessions divisions; and every sessions divisions shall, for the…

Section 6 – Classes of Criminal Courts – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (New CrPC) Section 6 – Classes of Criminal Courts. : Besides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law, other than this Sanhita, there…

Section 5 – Saving – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (New CrPC) Section 5 – Saving. – Nothing contained in this Sanhita shall, in the absence of a specific provision to the contrary, affect any special or local law…

Section 4 – Trial of offences under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and other laws. Section 4 – Trial of offences under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and other laws. – (1) All offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 shall be…

Section 3 – Construction of references – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 Section 3 – Construction of references : (1) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in any law, to a Magistrate without any qualifying words, Magistrate of…

Section 2 – Definitions.- The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 Section 2 – Definitions. (1) In this Sanhita, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “audio-video electronic means” shall include use of any communication device for the purposes of video conferencing,…

Section 1 – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.(2) The provisions of this Sanhita, other than those relating to Chapters…