The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
§197 — Ordinary place of inquiry and trial
Every offence shall ordinarily be inquired into and tried by a Court within whose local jurisdiction it was committed.
Old law ⇄ new law
Renumberedold law ⇄ new law
Old lawCRPC §177Ordinary place of inquiry and trialNew lawBNSS §197Ordinary place of inquiry and trial
CRPC §177 → BNSS §197 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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