IPC Section 377 has no BNS equivalent
- IPC 377 (Unnatural offences) → No BNS equivalentNot carried over: the BNS has no equivalent of IPC §377.
Offences committed before 1 July 2024 are still charged and tried under the IPC; the BNS applies to offences on or after that date.
Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.