CrPC 120 in BNSS: Section 139

Section 120 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 corresponds to Section 139 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. CrPC 120 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, replacing the CrPC.

Code of Criminal Procedure

CrPC 120 is now BNSS 139.

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