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CrPC section 60A in the BNSS

CrPC 60ABNSS 62

CrPC section 60A, “Arrest to be made strictly according to the Code”, is now BNSS section 62 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

What changed

From CrPC 60A to BNSS 62

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 60A Arrest to be made strictly according to the Code

No arrest shall be made except in accordance with the provisions of this Code or any other law for the time being in force providing for arrest.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 62 Arrest to be made strictly according to Sanhita

No arrest shall be made except in accordance with the provisions of this Sanhita or any other law for the time being in force providing for arrest.

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amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown.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The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)).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