CHAPTER XXXI APPEALS

Section 415: Appeals from convictions

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

(1) Any person convicted on a trial held by a High Court in its extraordinary original criminal jurisdiction may appeal to the Supreme Court.

(2) Any person convicted on a trial held by a Sessions Judge or an Additional Sessions Judge or on a trial held by any other Court in which a sentence of imprisonment for more than seven years has been passed against him or against any other person convicted at the same trial, may appeal to the High Court.

(3) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), any person,--

(a) convicted on a trial held by Magistrate of the first class, or of the second class; or

(b) sentenced under section 364; or

may appeal to the Court of Session.

(4) When an appeal has been filed against a sentence passed under section 64, section 65, section 66, section 67, section 68, section 70 or section 71 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the appeal shall be disposed of within a period of six months from the date of filing of such appeal.

Corresponding CrPC provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

415	374. Appeals from convictions.

Questions on this section

2 questions in 2 of our papers cite Section 415. Try these from the free papers:

1. In Vishnu Kumar Gupta v. State of Madhya Pradesh, decided on 30 July 2026, a Magistrate had acquitted the accused, and the Sessions Court, in appeal, reversed the acquittal and convicted him. The Supreme Court held that the accused's remedy against this conviction is:
2. A Judicial Magistrate First Class acquits X of an offence under Section 304A read with Section 34 IPC. V, the victim, wants to challenge the acquittal. Following the Supreme Court's ruling of 22 September 2026 in Subhas Chandra Sarkar v. State of West Bengal, V's appeal lies to:

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