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BNS 2023 Essentials

The new code and its old IPC equivalents.

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  1. 1.What replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and from when?

    The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), in force from 1 July 2024.

    BNS 2023

  2. 2.Culpable homicide and murder — IPC and BNS sections?

    Culpable homicide: IPC s 299 → BNS s 100. Murder: IPC s 300 → BNS s 101. Punishment for murder: IPC s 302 → BNS s 103.

    BNS 2023, ss 100, 101, 103

  3. 3.Theft — IPC and BNS sections?

    IPC s 378 → BNS s 303.

    BNS 2023, s 303

  4. 4.Cheating — IPC and BNS sections?

    IPC s 415 → BNS s 318.

    BNS 2023, s 318

  5. 5.Under the IPC, which section gave complete immunity to a child under seven?

    Section 82 IPC: nothing is an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age (the same rule is carried into the BNS).

    IPC s 82