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…