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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 398, BNSS: Witness protection scheme

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 398 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words.

What it replaces

Nothing: the official comparison summary marks this provision as new in the BNSS, with no equivalent in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The whole table: CrPC to BNSS.

The section

398. Witness protection scheme.

Every State Government shall prepare and notify a Witness Protection Scheme for the State with a view to ensure protection of the witnesses.

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

  1. India Code: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, section 398 (read 1 September 2026)
  2. 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.