Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 20 : Directorate of Prosecution : (See section 25A of CrPC 1973) (1) The State Government may establish,— (a) a Directorate of Prosecution in the State consisting of a Director of Prosecution and as many Deputy Directors of Prosecution…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 19 : Assistant Public Prosecutors : (See section 25 of CrPC 1973) (1) The State Government shall appoint in every district one or more Assistant Public Prosecutors for conducting prosecutions in the Courts of Magistrates. (2) The Central Government…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 18 : Public Prosecutors : (See section 24 of CrPC 1973) (1) For every High Court, the Central Government or the State Government shall, after consultation with the High Court, appoint a Public Prosecutor and may also appoint one…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 17 : Subordination of Executive Magistrates : (See section 23 of CrPC 1973) (1) All Executive Magistrates shall be subordinate to the District Magistrate, and every Executive Magistrate (other than the Sub-divisional Magistrate) exercising powers in a sub-division shall…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 16 : Local Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrates : (See section 22 of CrPC 1973) (1) Subject to the control of the State Government, the District Magistrate may, from time to time, define the local limits of the areas within…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 15 : Special Executive Magistrates : (See section 21 of CrPC 1973) The State Government may appoint, for such term as it may think fit, Executive Magistrates or any police officer not below the rank of Superintendent of Police…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 14 : Executive Magistrates : (See section 20 of CrPC 1973) (1) In every district, the State Government may appoint as many persons as it thinks fit to be Executive Magistrates and shall appoint one of them to be…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 13 : Subordination of Judicial Magistrates : (See section 15 of CrPC 1973) (1) Every Chief Judicial Magistrate shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge; and every other Judicial Magistrate shall, subject to the general control of the Sessions…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 12 : Local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates : (See section 14 of CrPC 1973) (1) Subject to the control of the High Court, the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, from time to time, define the local limits of the areas…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 11 : Special Judicial Magistrates : (See section 13 of CrPC 1973) (1) The High Court may, if requested by the Central or State Government so to do, confer upon any person who holds or has held any post…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 10 : Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc : (See section 12 of CrPC 1973) (1) In every district, the High Court shall appoint a Judicial Magistrate of the first class to be the Chief Judicial…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 9 : Courts of Judicial Magistrates : (See section 11 of CrPC 1973) (1) In every district there shall be established as many Courts of Judicial Magistrates of the first class and of the second class, and at such…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 8 : Court of Session : (See section 9 of CrPC 1973) (1) The State Government shall establish a Court of Session for every sessions division. (2) Every Court of Session shall be presided over by a Judge, to…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 7 : Territorial divisions : (See section 7 of CrPC 1973) (1) Every State shall be a sessions division or shall consist of sessions divisions; and every sessions divisions shall, for the purposes of this Sanhita, be a district…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Chapter II : Constitution Of Criminal Courts And Offices : Section 6 : Classes of Criminal Courts : (See section 6 of CrPC 1973) Besides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law, other than this Sanhita, there…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 5 : Saving : (See section 5 of CrPC 1973) Nothing contained in this Sanhita shall, in the absence of a specific provision to the contrary, affect any special or local law for the time being in force, or…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 4 : Trial of offences under Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 and other laws : (See section 4 of CrPC 1973) (1) All offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 shall be investigated, inquired into, tried, and otherwise dealt with…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 3 : Construction of references : (See section 3 of CrPC 1973) (1) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in any law, to a Magistrate without any qualifying words, Magistrate of the first class or a Magistrate of…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 2 : Definitions : (See section 2 of CrPC 1973) (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, recording of processes…
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 (46 of 2023) An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Criminal Procedure. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— Chapter I : Preliminary : Section 1 : Short…