Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

Section 325, BNS: Mischief by killing or maiming animal

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 325 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words, with the IPC provision it replaces.

What it replaces

BNS provision	IPC provision	Relation
Section 325	Section 428	corresponds — old-column verbatim: 428/ 429

From the Bureau of Police Research and Development's official comparison summary (source below). The whole table: IPC to BNS.

The section

325. Mischief by killing or maiming animal.

Whoever commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless any animal shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

India Code: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, section 325 (read 1 September 2026)
Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BNS to IPC (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.