Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 315, BNSS: Remarks respecting demeanour of witness

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 315 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 315	Section 280	corresponds

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

The section

315. Remarks respecting demeanour of witness.

When a presiding Judge or Magistrate has recorded the evidence of a witness, he shall also record such remarks (if any) as he thinks material respecting the demeanour of such witness whilst under examination.

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 315 (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.