BNSS Chapter XXVI: General Provisions as to Inquiries and Trials
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Sections 337–366). Each links to its verbatim text.
- BNSS337 Person once convicted or acquitted not to be tried for same offence
- BNSS338 Appearance by Public Prosecutors
- BNSS339 Permission to conduct prosecution
- BNSS340 Right of person against whom proceedings are instituted to be defended
- BNSS341 Legal aid to accused at State expense in certain cases
- BNSS342 Procedure when corporation or registered society is an accused
- BNSS343 Tender of pardon to accomplice
- BNSS344 Power to direct tender of pardon
- BNSS345 Trial of person not complying with conditions of pardon
- BNSS346 Power to postpone or adjourn proceedings
- BNSS347 Local inspection
- BNSS348 Power to summon material witness, or examine person present
- BNSS349 Power of Magistrate to order person to give specimen signatures or handwriting, etc
- BNSS350 Expenses of complainants and witnesses
- BNSS351 Power to examine accused
- BNSS352 Oral arguments and memorandum of arguments
- BNSS353 Accused person to be competent witness
- BNSS354 No influence to be used to induce disclosure
- BNSS355 Provision for inquiries and trial being held in absence of accused in certain cases
- BNSS356 Inquiry, trial or judgment in absentia of proclaimed offender
- BNSS357 Procedure where accused does not understand proceedings
- BNSS358 Power to proceed against other persons appearing to be guilty of offence
- BNSS359 Compounding of offences
- BNSS360 Withdrawal from prosecution
- BNSS361 Procedure in cases which Magistrate cannot dispose of
- BNSS362 Procedure when after commencement of inquiry or trial, Magistrate finds case should be committed
- BNSS363 Trial of persons previously convicted of offences against coinage, stamp-law or property
- BNSS364 Procedure when Magistrate cannot pass sentence sufficiently severe
- BNSS365 Conviction or commitment on evidence partly recorded by one Magistrate and partly by another
- BNSS366 Court to be open