The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
§60A — Arrest to be made strictly according to the Code
No arrest shall be made except in accordance with the provisions of this Code or any other law for the time being in force providing for arrest.]
Old law ⇄ new law
Renumberedold law ⇄ new law
Old lawCRPC §60AArrest to be made strictly according to the CodeNew lawBNSS §62Arrest to be made strictly according to Sanhita
CRPC §60A → BNSS §62 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 Repealed by BNSS 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01.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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