Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Section 139

BNSS 139: earlier CrPC 120

Section 139 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 replaces Section 120 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. BNSS 139 deals with contents of bond. The NCRB table marks it as changed. Compare the wording below. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita came into force on 1 July 2024.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita

BNSS 139 was CrPC 120.

Contents of bond. · The NCRB table marks it as changed. Compare the wording below.

Modified
Old wording kept in full
Old · CrPC 1973 · Ch. VIII
s. 120
Contents of bond
The bond to be executed by any such person shall bind him to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, as the case may be, and in the latter case the commission or attempt to commit, or the abetment of, any offence punishable with imprisonment, wherever it may be committed, is a breach of the bond.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNSS 2023 · Ch. IX
s. 139
Contents of bond.
The bond or bail bond to be executed by any such person shall bind him to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, as the case may be, and in the latter case the commission or attempt to commit, or the abetment of, any offence punishable with imprisonment, wherever it may be committed, is a breach of the bond or bail bond.
Text from India Code

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