The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
§252 — Conviction on plea of guilty
If the accused pleads guilty, the Magistrate shall record the plea as nearly as possible in the words used by the accused and may, in his discretion, convict him thereon.
Old law ⇄ new law
Renumberedold law ⇄ new law
CRPC §252 → BNSS §275 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/15272/1/the_code_of_criminal_procedure,_1973.pdf, 1,879,339 bytes) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-16. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Repealed by BNSS 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; illustrations restored via illustration-aware re-extraction on 2026-07-19; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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