Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023
No. 45 Of 2023
To consolidate and amend the provisions relating to offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:––
Chapter I :
Preliminary :
Section 1 :
Short title, commencement and application :
(See section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of IPC 1860)
(1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
(2) It shall come into force on such 1.[date] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of the Sanhita.
(3) Every person shall be liable to punishment under this Sanhita and not otherwise for every act or omission contrary to the provisions thereof, of which he shall be guilty within India.
(4) Any person liable, by any law for the time being in force in India, to be tried for an offence committed beyond India shall be dealt with according to the provisions of this Sanhita for any act committed beyond India in the same manner as if such act had been committed within India.
(5) The provisions of this Sanhita shall also apply to any offence committed by—
(a) any citizen of India in any place without and beyond India;
(b) any person on any ship or aircraft registered in India wherever it may be;
(c) any person in any place without and beyond India committing offence targeting a computer resource located in India.
Explanation :
In this section the word “offence” includes every act committed outside India which, if committed in India, would be punishable under this Sanhita.
Illustration :
A, who is a citizen of India, commits a murder in any place without and beyond India, he can be tried and convicted of murder in any place in India in which he may be found.
(6) Nothing in this Sanhita shall affect the provisions of any Act for punishing mutiny and desertion of officers, soldiers, sailors or airmen in the service of the Government of India or the provisions of any special or local law.
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1. 1st July, 2024, vide notification No. S.O. 850(E), dated 23nd Feb, 2024, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section. 3 (ii).