Plain-English guides to the sections people actually deal with — what changed on 1 July 2024, what a section really requires, what happens at the police station and in a Delhi court, and what it costs you to get it wrong. Every page is researched from source and says so where a point could not be verified.
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Replaced the Indian Penal Code on 1 July 2024. These are the offence sections.
Sections 74 to 79 changed no punishment at all — but sexual harassment became non-bailable and Sessions-triable, most of these offences are time-barred after three …
The section that replaced IPC 304B. The four ingredients, the mandatory presumption under Section 118 BSA, the SDM inquest in Delhi, bail and trial.
The section that replaced IPC 494 and 495. Punishment, why an FIR usually cannot be filed, who may complain under Section 219 BNSS, the essential-ceremonies defence…
The section that replaced IPC 498A. Punishment, what counts as cruelty, how a case is filed in Delhi, and how it is defended.
Where murder and the lynching provision actually sit in the BNS, the new five-year minimum for culpable homicide, the two-year limb for registered doctors, and why …
The section that replaced IPC 306. Why harassment alone is not the offence, the three ingredients the courts insist on, and why the presumption for a married woman …
Two numbering traps that catch everyone, why the injury proves nothing in either direction, and the entirely different pre-trial regime that applies to Section 110.
The fifteen-day threshold that replaced twenty days, the two brand-new sub-sections of Section 117, why hurt by a dangerous weapon is now non-bailable and non-compo…
Community service for a first petty theft, a minimum sentence on a second conviction, snatching as a brand-new offence that is non-bailable at any value, and vehicl…
The section that replaced IPC 383 to 389 and raised the punishment from three years to seven. All seven sub-sections, why some need delivery of property and some do…
The section that replaced IPC 405 to 409, with the general punishment raised from three years to five. What entrustment means, why an unpaid debt is not this offenc…
The section that replaced IPC 415, 417, 418 and 420, with three punishments raised. All four sub-sections, why a broken contract is not cheating, filing in Delhi, a…
The section that replaced IPC 503, 506 and 507. All four sub-sections, why abusive language is not a threat, and the security proceedings that work faster than a cr…
Replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure. These are the process sections — bail, quashing, maintenance.
The section that replaced CrPC 125 — and dropped one word. Who can claim, why 25% is not a rule, the affidavit the Supreme Court made compulsory, and the one-year l…
The section that replaced CrPC 438 — and which is not the old Section 482, now BNSS 528. What the new text dropped, how long protection lasts, the Section 35(3) not…
The old CrPC 482 — the High Court's inherent powers. The Bhajan Lal grounds, how a settled matrimonial case is ended even though Section 85 cannot be compounded, an…
Replaced the Indian Evidence Act. What a court will and will not accept as proof.
How things actually work on the ground in Delhi, as opposed to what a section says.
Provisions outside the three new criminal codes that come up constantly in practice.
The two motions, the eighteen-month limit, the four conditions for waiving the wait, what only the Supreme Court can do, and why a pending cruelty case cannot simpl…
The three deadlines that decide whether you have a case, why a cheque is valid for three months and not six, where to file in Delhi, interim compensation and the de…
A civil remedy, not a criminal case. Protection, residence and maintenance orders, why the in-laws' house can be a shared household, stridhan, and how to file in De…
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On 1 July 2024 three new codes replaced the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act. Most of the law was carried over, but almost every section number moved — and in several places the same number now means something completely different. Each page sets out the old-to-new mapping for its own area.
Very much. An offence committed before 1 July 2024 continues under the old codes, and cases from that period are still moving through the courts and will be for years. Several of these pages flag exactly where the changeover date changes the answer.
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