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CrPC · Chapter XXIX · Appeals

CrPC section 380 in the BNSS

CrPC 380BNSS 421

CrPC section 380, “Special right of appeal in certain cases”, is now BNSS section 421 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

What changed

From CrPC 380 to BNSS 421

Now BNSS section 421, with the same right.

The official text

Old and new, side by side

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Section 380 Special right of appeal in certain cases

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Chapter, when more persons than one are convicted in one trial, and an appealable judgment or order has been passed in respect of any of such persons, all or any of the persons convicted at such trial shall have a right of appeal.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 421 Special right of appeal in certain cases

Notwithstanding anything in this Chapter, when more persons than one are convicted in one trial, and an appealable judgment or order has been passed in respect of any of such persons, all or any of the persons convicted at such trial shall have a right of appeal.

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amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown.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The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)).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

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