The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
§168 — Police to prevent cognizable offences
Every police officer may interpose for the purpose of preventing, and shall, to the best of his ability, prevent, the commission of any cognizable offence.
Old law ⇄ new law
Renumberedold law ⇄ new law
Old lawCRPC §149Police to prevent cognizable offencesNew lawBNSS §168Police to prevent cognizable offences
CRPC §149 → BNSS §168 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.
Source & version
Official text: Gazette of India via MHA (official) ↗
Official Gazette text: The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023), English PDF as hosted by Ministry of Home Affairs (mha.gov.in, file 250884_2_english_01042024.pdf). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest gazette-bbox parser on 2026-07-14. Automated parse; structural validation + spot verification; full clause-level proofread pending.
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