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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 495, BNSS: Appeal from orders under section 491

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 495 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in the Act's own words, with the CrPC provision it replaces.

What it replaces

BNSS provisionCrPC provisionRelation
Section 495Section 449corresponds

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

The section

495. Appeal from orders under section 491.

All orders passed under section 491 shall be appealable,--- (i) in the case of an order made by a Magistrate, to the Sessions Judge; (ii) in the case of an order made by a Court of Session, to the Court to which an appeal lies from an order made by such Court.

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 495 (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.