Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS): 

Key Provisions

                         The  Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), a comprehensive legislation in the Indian criminal justice system, outlines the procedural framework for the administration of criminal law. Understanding the key provisions under the BNSS is crucial for legal practitioners and students. This guide provides a summary of essential BNSS sections to simplify the navigation of criminal proceedings.

Key Provisions in Criminal Proceedings

Arrest and Rights of Arrested Person

  - Provision: Sections 35 to 62

  - Key Points: Rights to be informed of grounds of arrest, right to bail, medical examination on request, production before a magistrate within 24 hours.

Bail

  - Provision: Sections 478 to 496

  - Key Points: Conditions for granting bail, bail in bailable and non-bailable offenses, anticipatory bail.

First Information Report (FIR)

  - Provision: Section 173

  - Key Points: Registration of FIR, information regarding cognizable offenses, format and substance of FIR.

Police Investigation

  - Provision: Sections 174 to 196

  - Key Points: Powers of police to investigate, procedure for investigation, submission of charge-sheet.

Cognizance of Offenses by Magistrates

  - Provision: Sections 210 to 222

  - Key Points: Procedure for magistrates to take cognizance, complaints to magistrates, dismissal of complaints.

Charges

  - Provision: Sections 234 to 247

  - Key Points: Framing of charges, alteration of charges, joinder of charges, separate trials for multiple offenses.

Trials

  - Sessions Trials: Sections 248 to 260

  - Warrant Cases by Magistrates: Sections 261 to 273

  - Summons Cases by Magistrates: Sections 274 to 282

  - Summary Trials: Sections 283 to 288

  - Key Points: Procedures specific to each type of trial, rights of the accused, procedures for recording evidence, judgment, and sentencing.

Appeals, Revisions, and References

  - Provision: Sections 413 to 445

  - Key Points: Right to appeal, procedure for filing appeals, grounds for revision, power of superior courts to call for records.

Compounding of Offenses

  - Provision: Section 359

  - Key Points: List of compoundable offenses, procedure for compounding, role of the court in compounding.

Judgment and Sentence

  - Provision: Sections 392 to 412

  - Key Points: Delivery of judgment, types of sentences, post-trial procedures, execution of sentences.

Execution, Suspension, Remission, and Commutation of Sentences

  - Provision: Sections 453 to 477

  - Key Points: Procedures for execution of death sentences, suspension and remission of sentences, commutation of sentences.

Maintenance of Wives, Children, and Parents

  - Provision: Sections 144 to 147

  - Key Points: Right to maintenance, procedure for filing maintenance claims, enforcement of maintenance orders.