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CHAPTER XXXVII IRREGULAR PROCEEDINGS

Section 508: Proceedings in wrong place

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

No finding, sentence or order of any Criminal Court shall be set aside merely on the ground that the inquiry, trial or other proceedings in the course of which it was arrived at or passed, took place in a wrong sessions division, district, sub-division or other local area, unless it appears that such error has in fact occasioned a failure of justice.

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

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