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CHAPTER II GENERAL EXPLANATIONS

Section 18: “India”

The Indian Penal Code, 1860 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

1[“India” means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by s. 3 and the Sch., ibid., for s. 18 which was ins. by the A.O. 1950. The Original s. 18 was rep. by the A.O. 1937.

Now in the BNS

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

18. “India”.Not carried into the new law

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