You will read about the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 in this category. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita is the official criminal code in India. It was introduced in December 2023 to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which dates back to the British India era.
Section 229 BNS | BNS 229 229(1) BNS Whoever intentionally gives false evidence in any stage of a judicial proceeding, or fabricates false evidence for the purpose of being used in any stage of a judicial proceeding, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and … Read more
Section 228 BNS | BNS 228 | BNS Section 228 Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or makes any false entry in any book or record, or electronic record or makes any document or electronic record containing a false statement, intending that such circumstance, false entry or false statement may appear in evidence in a … Read more
Section 227 BNS | BNS 227 | BNS Section 227 Whoever, being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth, or being bound by law to make a declaration upon any subject, makes any statement which is false, and which he either knows or believes to be … Read more
Section 226 BNS | BNS 226 Whoever attempts to commit suicide with the intent to compel or restrain any public servant from discharging his official duty shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both, or with community service. Reference Link: New Criminal … Read more
Section 225 BNS | BNS 225 Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person for the purpose of inducing that person to refrain or desist from making a legal application for protection against any injury to any public servant legally empowered as such to give such protection, or to cause such protection to … Read more
Section 224 BNS | BNS 224 Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any public servant, or to any person in whom he believes that public servant to be interested, for the purpose of inducing that public servant to do any act, or to forbear or delay to do any act, connected with the … Read more
Section 223 BNS | BNS 223 Whoever, knowing that, by an order promulgated by a public servant lawfully empowered to promulgate such order, he is directed to abstain from a certain act, or to take certain order with certain property in his possession or under his management, disobeys such direction,— 223(a) BNS shall, if such … Read more
Section 222 BNS | BNS 222 Whoever, being bound by law to render or furnish assistance to any public servant in the execution of his public duty, intentionally omits to give such assistance,— 222(a) BNS shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may … Read more
Section 221 BNS | BNS 221 Whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his public functions, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two thousand and five hundred rupees, or with both. Reference Link: New … Read more
Section 220 BNS | BNS 220 Whoever, at any sale of property held by the lawful authority of a public servant, as such, purchases or bids for any property on account of any person, whether himself or any other, whom he knows to be under a legal incapacity to purchase that property at that sale, … Read more