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CHAPTER XIII JURISDICTION OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS IN INQUIRIES AND TRIALS

Section 177: Ordinary place of inquiry and trial

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

Every offence shall ordinarily be inquired into and tried by a Court within whose local jurisdiction it was committed.

Now in the BNSS

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

177. Ordinary place of inquiry and trial.BNSS 197

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