CrPC · Chapter XIII · Jurisdiction of the criminal courts in inquiries and trials

CrPC section 185 in the BNSS

CrPC 185BNSS 205

CrPC section 185, “Power to order cases to be tried in different sessions divisions”, is now BNSS section 205 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

What changed

From CrPC 185 to BNSS 205

Now BNSS section 205, with the same power.

The official text

Old and new, side by side

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Section 185 Power to order cases to be tried in different sessions divisions

Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisions of this Chapter, the State Government may direct that any cases or class of cases committed for trial in any district may be tried in any sessions division:

Provided that such direction is not repugnant to any direction previously issued by the High Court or the Supreme Court under the Constitution, or under this Code or any other law for the time being in force.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 205 Power to order cases to be tried in different sessions divisions

Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisions of this Chapter, the State Government may direct that any case or class of cases committed for trial in any district may be tried in any sessions division:

Provided that such direction is not repugnant to any direction previously issued by the High Court or the Supreme Court under the Constitution, or under this Sanhita or any other law for the time being in force.

The texts are India Code’s. The amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown. The PDFs linked below carry the full history.

Old law or new?

Which one applies to a case

The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)). Any appeal, application, trial, inquiry or investigation pending immediately before that date is disposed of under the CrPC as it then stood, as if the BNSS had not come into force (section 531(2)(a)). Anything not pending on that date follows the BNSS.