Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Section 492

BNSS 492: earlier CrPC 446A

Section 492 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 replaces Section 446A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. BNSS 492 deals with cancellation of bond and bail 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 492 was CrPC 446A.

Cancellation of bond and bail bond. · The NCRB table marks it as changed. Compare the wording below.

Modified
98% of the old wording kept
Old · CrPC 1973 · Ch. XXXIII
s. 446A
Cancellation of bond and bail bond
Without prejudice to the provisions of section 446, where a bond under this Code is for appearance of a person in a case and it is forfeited for breach of a condition,—
(a) the bond executed by such person as well as the bond, if any, executed by one or more of his sureties in that case shall stand cancelled; and
(b) thereafter no such person shall be released only on his own bond in that case, if the Police Officer or the Court, as the case may be, for appearance before whom the bond was executed, is satisfied that there was no sufficient cause for the failure of the person bound by the bond to comply with its condition:
Provided that subject to any other provisions of this Code he may be released in that case upon the execution of a fresh personal bond for such sum of money and bond by one or more of such sureties as the Police Officer or the Court, as the case may be, thinks sufficient.]
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNSS 2023 · Ch. XXXV
s. 492
Cancellation of bond and bail bond.
Without prejudice to the provisions of section 491, where a bond or bail bond under this Sanhita is for appearance of a person in a case and it is forfeited for breach of a condition,---
(a) the bond executed by such person as well as the bond, if any, executed by one or more of his sureties in that case shall stand cancelled; and
(b) thereafter no such person shall be released only on his own bond in that case, if the police officer or the Court, as the case may be, for appearance before whom the bond was executed, is satisfied that there was no sufficient cause for the failure of the person bound by the bond to comply with its condition:
Provided that subject to any other provisions of this Sanhita he may be released in that case upon the execution of a fresh personal bond for such sum of money and bond by one or more of such sureties as the police officer or the Court, as the case may be, thinks sufficient.
Text from India Code

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