Section 8 BNS- Amount of fine, liability in default of payment of fine, etc. (1) Where no sum is expressed to which a fine may extend, the amount of fine to which the offender is liable is unlimited, but shall not be excessive. (2) In…
Section 7 BNS- Sentence may be (in certain cases of imprisonment) wholly or partly rigorous or simple In every case in which an offender is punishable with imprisonment which may be of either description, it shall be competent to the Court which sentences such offender…
Section 6 BNS- Fractions of terms of punishment. In calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to imprisonment for twenty years unless otherwise provided.
Section 5 BNS- Commutation of sentence The appropriate Government may, without the consent of the offender, commute any punishment under this Sanhita to any other punishment in accordance with section 474 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Explanation.––For the purposes of this section the…
Section 4 BNS- Punishments The punishments to which offenders are liable under the provisions of this Sanhita are— (a) Death; (b) Imprisonment for life; (c) Imprisonment, which is of two descriptions, namely:— (1) Rigorous, that is, with hard labour; (2) Simple; (d) Forfeiture of property;…
Section 2 BNS- General explanations (1) Throughout this Sanhita every definition of an offence, every penal provision, and every Illustration of every such definition or penal provision, shall be understood subject to the exceptions contained in the Chapter entitled “General Exceptions”, though those exceptions are…
Section 2 BNS- Definitions In this Sanhita, unless the context otherwise requires,––(1) “act” denotes as well a series of acts as a single act;(2) “animal” means any living creature, other than a human being;(3) “child” means any person below the age of eighteen years;(4) “counterfeit”.––A…
Section 1 BNS- Short title, commencement and application (1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed…