CHAPTER IX: SECURITY FOR KEEPING THE PEACE AND FOR GOOD BEHAVIOUR Section 125: Security for keeping peace on conviction Section 126: Security for keeping peace in other cases Section 127: Security for good behaviour from persons disseminating certain matters Section 128: Security for good behaviour from suspected persons Section 129: Security for good behaviour from
CHAPTER VIII: RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN CERTAIN MATTERS AND PROCEDURE FOR ATTACHMENT AND FORFEITURE OF PROPERTY Section 111: Definitions Section 112: Letter of request to competent authority for investigation in a country or place outside India Section 113: Letter of request from a country or place outside India to a Court or an authority
CHAPTER VII: PROCESSES TO COMPEL THE PRODUCTION OF THINGS A. Summons to produce Section 94: Summons to produce document or other thing Section 95: Procedure as to letters B. Search-warrants Section 96: When search-warrant may be issued Section 97: Search of place suspected to contain stolen property, forged documents, etc. Section 98: Power to declare
CHAPTER VI: PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE A. Summons Section 63: Form of summons Section 64: Summons how served Section 65: Service of summons on corporate bodies, firms, and societies Section 66: Service when persons summoned cannot be found Section 67: Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided Section 68: Service on Government servant
CHAPTER V: ARREST OF PERSONS Section 35: When police may arrest without warrant Section 36: Procedure of arrest and duties of officer making arrest Section 37: Designated police officer Section 38: Right of arrested person to meet an advocate of his choice during interrogation Section 39: Arrest on refusal to give name and residence Section
CHAPTER IV: POWERS OF SUPERIOR OFFICERS OF POLICE AND AID TO THE MAGISTRATES AND THE POLICE Section 30: Powers of superior officers of police Section 31: Public when to assist Magistrates and police Section 32: Aid to person, other than police officer, executing warrant Section 33: Public to give information of certain offences Section 34:
CHAPTER II: CONSTITUTION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES Section 6: Classes of Criminal Courts Section 7: Territorial divisions Section 8: Court of Session Section 9: Courts of Judicial Magistrates Section 10: Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc. Section 11: Special Judicial Magistrates Section 12: Local Jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates Section 13: Subordination
CHAPTER III: POWER OF COURTS Section 21: Courts by which offences are triable Section 22: Sentences which High Courts and Sessions Judges may pass Section 23: Sentences which Magistrates may pass Section 24: Sentence of imprisonment in default of fine Section 25: Sentence in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial Section 26:
This guide breaks down the initial sections of the BNSS, 2023, explaining the legal provisions in simple terms with practical examples. CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement Section 2: Definitions Section 3: Construction of references Section 4: Trial of offences under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and other laws Section 5: Saving
