BNS Section 1

Section 1 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, deals with the short title, commencement, and application of the Act.This Act consolidates and amends the provisions related to offences, along with matters connected to or arising from them.

In the seventy-fourth year of the Republic of India, the Parliament passed the following Act:

1. This Act may be called the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
2. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of the Sanhita.
3. Every person shall be liable to punishment under this Sanhita and not otherwise for every act or omission contrary to the provisions thereof, of which he shall be guilty within India.
4. Any person liable, by any law for the time being in force in India, to be tried for an offence committed beyond India shall be dealt with accordin to the provisions of this Sanhita for any act committed beyond India in the same manner as if such act had been committed within India.
5. The provisions of this Sanhita apply also to any offence committed by
     a. any citizen of India in any place without and beyond India;
     b. any person on any ship or aircraft registered in India, wherever it may be;
     c. any person in any place without and beyond India committing offence targeting a computer resource located in India.

Explanation: In BNS Section 1, the word “offence” includes every act committed outside India which, if committed in India, would be punishable under this Sanhita.
Illustrations: A, who is a citizen of India, commits a murder in any place without and beyond India, he can be tried and convicted of murder in any place in India in which he may be found.
 

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