Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Section 50

BNSS 50: earlier CrPC 52

Section 50 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 replaces Section 52 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. BNSS 50 deals with power to seize offensive weapons. 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 50 was CrPC 52.

Power to seize offensive weapons. · The NCRB table marks it as changed. Compare the wording below.

Modified
95% of the old wording kept
Old · CrPC 1973 · Ch. V
s. 52
Power to seize offensive weapons
The officer or other person making any arrest under this Code may take from the person arrested any offensive weapons which he has about his person, and shall deliver all weapons so taken to the Court or officer before which or whom the officer or person making the arrest is required by this Code to produce the person arrested.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNSS 2023 · Ch. V
s. 50
Power to seize offensive weapons.
The police officer or other person making any arrest under this Sanhita may, immediately after the arrest is made, take from the person arrested any offensive weapons which he has about his person, and shall deliver all weapons so taken to the Court or officer before which or whom the officer or person making the arrest is required by this Sanhita to produce the person arrested.
Text from India Code

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