Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 197, BNSS: Ordinary place of inquiry and trial

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 197 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words, with the CrPC provision it replaces.

What it replaces

BNSS provision	CrPC provision	Relation
Section 197	Section 177	corresponds

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

The section

197. Ordinary place of inquiry and trial.

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

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 Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, section 197 (read 1 September 2026)
Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BNSS to CrPC (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.