Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Section 153

CrPC 153 in BNSS: no corresponding section

Section 153 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 was not carried into the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023: no BNSS section corresponds to it. CrPC 153 deals with inspection of weights and measures. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita came into force on 1 July 2024, replacing the CrPC. Its full text is set out below.

Code of Criminal Procedure

CrPC 153 has no counterpart in the BNSS.

Inspection of weights and measures · It was not carried into the 2023 code.

Dropped
Old · CrPC 1973 · Ch. XI
s. 153
Inspection of weights and measures
(1) Any officer in charge of a police station may, without a warrant, enter any place within the limits of such station for the purpose of inspecting or searching for any weights or measures or instruments for weighing, used or kept therein, whenever he has reason to believe that there are in such place any weights, measures or instruments for weighing which are false.
(2) If he finds in such place any weights, measures or instruments for weighing which are false, he may seize the same, and shall forthwith give information of such seizure to a Magistrate having jurisdiction.
Text from the official India Code PDF
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