CHAPTER XIV CONDITIONS REQUISITE FOR INITIATION OF PROCEEDINGS

Section 198A: Prosecution of offences under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

¹[No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) except upon a police report of facts which constitute such offence or upon a complaint made by the person aggrieved by the offence or by her father, mother, brother, sister or by her father’s or mother’s brother or sister or, with the leave of the Court, by any other person related to her by blood, marriage or adoption.]

Footnotes in the official text

1.Ins. by Act 46 of 1983, s. 5 (w.e.f. 25-12-1983).

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

198A. Prosecution of offences under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code

BNSS 220

Questions on this section

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1. Under Section 220 of the BNSS, a Court may take cognizance of an offence punishable under Section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (cruelty by the husband or his relative) upon:

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