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 Section 420 for 160 years. Since 1 July 2024 it’s BNS Section 318. Multiply that by thousands of 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
Type any section
Old or new — “420 IPC”, “BNS 103”, even “u/s 154 CrPC”. However your notes wrote it.
Read the real text
The full, official bare-act text — not a summary — in a reader built for actually reading.
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
5,614 sections across 36 central 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.
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:
Common questions
- Which BNS section replaced IPC Section 420?
- Cheating is now BNS Section 318. Every such pairing comes from the government’s own concordance — open the IPC ⇄ BNS mapping for the whole table, or type a section into the box above to jump straight to it with both texts side by side.
- Is the bare-act text here official?
- It is reproduced from the Gazette of India and India Code, with the source recorded on every act and shown at the foot of every section. It is a reference, not a certified copy — verify against the Gazette before you rely on it in court. How we verify, and the mistakes we have fixed.
- Does it cover CrPC → BNSS and the Evidence Act → BSA as well?
- Yes — all three transitions, in both directions, with a note on what changed. So do the other central acts in the library: the Constitution, the Contract Act, the CPC, the NI Act, POCSO, the Hindu Marriage Act, the Limitation Act and more.
- Is Vidhara free? Do I need an account?
- Free, and no sign-up to read anything. An account only remembers what you bookmark across devices.
- Can I use it to prepare for judiciary exams?
- That is who it is built for. Read the sections, then test yourself on the daily question or with unlimited practice — every question is generated from the official mapping, never invented.
Start with a section you’re studying right now.
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