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CrPC section 27 in the BNSS

CrPC 27Not carried over

CrPC section 27, “Jurisdiction in the case of juveniles”, was not carried into the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, which replaced the CrPC on 1 July 2024.

What changed

Why there is no BNSS section

Not carried into the BNSS. The CrPC section let a Chief Judicial Magistrate or a court under the Children Act try certain offences by persons under sixteen; the BNSS has no such section.

The official text

Old and new, side by side

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Section 27 Jurisdiction in the case of juveniles

Any offence not punishable with death or imprisonment for life, committed by any person who at the date when he appears or is brought before the Court is under the age of sixteen years, may be tried by the Court of a Chief Judicial Magistrate, or by any Court specially empowered under the Children Act, 1960 (60 of 1960), or any other law for the time being in force providing for the treatment, training and rehabilitation of youthful offenders.

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amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown.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The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)).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.