Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 381, BNSS: Power to order costs

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 381 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 381	Section 342	corresponds

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

The section

381. Power to order costs.

Any Court dealing with an application made to it for filing a complaint under section 379 or an appeal under section 380, shall have power to make such order as to costs as may be just.

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 381 (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.