CrPC · Chapter XXXVII · Miscellaneous
CrPC section 481, “Public servant concerned in sale not to purchase or bid for property”, is now BNSS section 527 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.
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.
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
A public servant having any duty to perform in connection with the sale of any property under this Code shall not purchase or bid for the property.
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
A public servant having any duty to perform in connection with the sale of any property under this Sanhita shall not purchase or bid for the property.
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amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown.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.
The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)).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.
