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CHAPTER I – PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, commencement and application. (1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. (2) It shall comeRead More →

2. Definitions. In this Sanhita, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “act” denotes as well a series of acts as a single act; (2) “animal”Read More →

3. General explanations. (1) Throughout this Sanhita, every definition of an offence, every penal provision, and every Illustration of every such definition or penal provision,Read More →

CHAPTER II – OF PUNISHMENTS 4. Punishments. The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions of this Sanhita are: (a) Death; (b) ImprisonmentRead More →

5. Commutation of sentence. The appropriate Government may, without the consent of the offender, commute any punishment under this Sanhita to any other punishment inRead More →

6. Fractions of terms of punishment. In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to imprisonment for twentyRead More →

7. Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple. In every case in which an offender is punishable withRead More →

8. Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc. (1) Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, theRead More →

9. Limit of punishment of offence made up of several offences. (1) Where anything which is an offence is made up of parts, any ofRead More →

10. Punishment of person guilty of one of several offences, judgment stating that it is doubtful of which. In all cases in which judgment isRead More →

11. Solitary confinement. Whenever any person is convicted of an offence for which under this Sanhita the Court has power to sentence him to rigorousRead More →

12. Limit of solitary confinement. In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, withRead More →

13. Enhanced punishment for certain offences after previous conviction. Whoever, having been convicted by a Court in India, of an offence punishable under Chapter XRead More →