Cover page titled 'Annotated Comparison' of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Published by Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi. The background is dark with geometric design elements."
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2024

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Criminalisation & Punishment

In the third installment of our annotated comparisons of India's new criminal laws, our team compared the proposed Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 with the current provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

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Our team prepared this annotated comparison highlighting the changes made to the Code of Criminal Procedure. This document contains two sections::

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  • The First Section is a tabular comparison of the sections in the BNSS against the corresponding provisions in the CrPC
  • The Second Section annotates the BNSS and highlights text wherever: 

(a) Text is borrowed from the CrPC 

(b) Changes are made to the text in CrPC

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