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CrPC Section 177 is now BNSS Section 197

Verbatim · BNSS 197197. Ordinary place of inquiry and trial.—Every offence shall ordinarily be inquired into and tried by a Court within whose local jurisdiction it was committed.

Read the full BNSS Section 197 →

The BNSS replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 from 1 July 2024.

Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.