CrPC · Chapter V · Arrest of persons

CrPC section 41C in the BNSS

CrPC 41CBNSS 37

CrPC section 41C, “Control room at districts”, is now BNSS section 37 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

What changed

From CrPC 41C to BNSS 37

Now BNSS section 37, “Designated police officer”. Instead of district control rooms, the State Government designates a police officer, not below Assistant Sub-Inspector, in every district and every police station to keep information about arrested persons, which must be displayed, including digitally, in every police station and district headquarters.

The official text

Old and new, side by side

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Section 41C Control room at districts

(1) The State Government shall establish a police control room—

(a) in every district; and

(b) at State level. (2) The State Government shall cause to be displayed on the notice board kept outside the control rooms at every district, the names and addresses of the persons arrested and the name and designation of the police officers who made the arrests. (3) The control room at the Police Headquarters at the State level shall collect from time to time, details about the persons arrested, nature of the offence with which they are charged and maintain a database for the information of the general public.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 37 Designated police officer

The State Government shall—

(a) establish a police control room in every district and at State level;

(b) designate a police officer in every district and in every police station, not below the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police who shall be responsible for maintaining the information about the names and addresses of the persons arrested, nature of the offence with which charged, which shall be prominently displayed in any manner including in digital mode in every police station and at the district headquarters.

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amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown.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The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)).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