CrPC · Chapter XXXIII · Provisions as to bail and bonds

CrPC section 448 in the BNSS

CrPC 448BNSS 494

CrPC section 448, “Bond required from minor”, is now BNSS section 494 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

What changed

From CrPC 448 to BNSS 494

Now BNSS section 494, “Bond required from child” (CrPC: minor). Same rule.

The official text

Old and new, side by side

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Section 448 Bond required from minor

When the person required by any Court, or officer to execute a bond is a minor, such Court or officer may accept, in lieu thereof, a bond executed by a surety or sureties only.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 494 Bond required from child

When the person required by any Court, or officer to execute a bond is a child, such Court or officer may accept, in lieu thereof, a bond executed by a surety or sureties only.

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amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown.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The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)).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