Vidhara

For law students, judiciary aspirants & advocates

Two criminal codes. One place that speaks both.

India rewrote its criminal law in 2024. Your books still say IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act; your exams and courts now say BNS, BNSS and BSA. Vidhara reads both — and shows you exactly how they line up.

Try it — type any section:

Every provision traced to the government’s own PDF — and we publish the mistakes we’ve found and fixed. How we verify

The problem

One section, two names — and everyone’s mid-switch.

Cheating was IPC §420 for 160 years. Since 1 July 2024 it’s BNS §318. Multiply that by 3,000+ sections and you get every law student’s daily friction. Vidhara turns that lookup into a single tap.

Old law

IPC §420

Cheating and dishonestly inducing…

New law

BNS §318

Cheating — consolidated & updated

How it works

1

Type any section

Old or new — “420 IPC”, “BNS 103”, even “u/s 154 CrPC”. However your notes wrote it.

2

Read the real text

The full, official bare-act text — not a summary — in a reader built for actually reading.

3

See what changed

The matching section in the other code sits right beside it, with a note on what moved.

What you get

The official mapping, free

Every IPC⇄BNS, CrPC⇄BNSS and Evidence⇄BSA section pairing — from the government's own NCRB concordance, not guesswork.

Bare acts, finally readable

3,000+ sections across 8 major acts, from the official Gazette — structured, searchable, and typeset for long study sessions.

Built for the transition

Your textbook says IPC 420; your exam says BNS 318. Open either one and the other is right there, both texts in full.

3,118sections
1,271official mappings
8major acts
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Every text is reproduced from official Government of India sources — the Gazette of India and India Code — with provenance recorded on each act.

Test yourself, not just your notes

Every question is built from the official mapping — never invented. One a day to build the habit, or unlimited practice when you’re revising.

Coming next — you decide

We build what students actually reach for. Tell us if this is it:

Start with a section you’re studying right now.

No account, no paywall. Type a number, read the law.

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