Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 288
Language of record and judgment
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BNSS Section 288 deals with language of record and judgment and replaces CrPC 265.
Bare act text — BNSS 288
288. Language of record and judgment.
(1) Every such record and judgment shall be written in the language of the Court.
(2) The High Court may authorise any Magistrate empowered to try offences summarily to prepare the aforesaid record or judgment or both by means of an officer appointed in this behalf by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, and the record or judgment so prepared shall be signed by such Magistrate.
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What was BNSS Section 288 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 288 (Language of record and judgment) replaces Section 265 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 265 is now BNSS 288.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 283 — Power to try summarily
- BNSS 284 — Summary trial by Magistrate of second class
- BNSS 285 — Procedure for summary trials
- BNSS 286 — Record in summary trials
- BNSS 287 — Judgment in cases tried summarily
- BNSS 289 — Application of Chapter
- BNSS 290 — Application for plea bargaining
- BNSS 291 — Guidelines for mutually satisfactory disposition
- BNSS 292 — Report of mutually satisfactory disposition to be submitted before Court
- BNSS 293 — Disposal of case