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CrPC section 272 in the BNSS

CrPC 272BNSS 307

CrPC section 272, “Language of Courts”, is now BNSS section 307 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

What changed

From CrPC 272 to BNSS 307

The words are the same as in the CrPC, apart from “Sanhita” for the Act’s own name and the new numbers of the sections it refers to.

The official text

Old and new, side by side

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Section 272 Language of Courts

The State Government may determine what shall be, for purposes of this Code, the language of each Court within the State other than the High Court.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 307 Language of Courts

The State Government may determine what shall be, for purposes of this Sanhita, the language of each Court within the State other than the High Court.

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amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown.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The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)).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