Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023
Section 198 :
Place of inquiry or trial :
(See section 178 of CrPC 1973)
(a) When it is uncertain in which of several local areas an offence was committed; or
(b) where an offence is committed partly in one local area and partly in another; or
(c) where an offence is a continuing one, and continues to be committed in more local areas than one; or
(d) where it consists of several acts done in different local areas,
it may be inquired into or tried by a Court having jurisdiction over any of such local areas.
