Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

BNSS Section 511

Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity

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BNSS Section 511 deals with finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity and replaces CrPC 465.

Bare act text — BNSS 511

511. Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity.

(1) Subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, no finding, sentence or order passed by a Court of competent jurisdiction shall be reversed or altered by a Court of appeal, confirmation of revision on account of any error, omission or irregularity in the complaint, summons, warrant, proclamation, order, judgment or other proceedings before or during trial or in any inquiry or other proceedings under this Sanhita, or any error, or irregularity in any sanction for the prosecution, unless in the opinion of that Court, a failure of justice has in fact been occasioned thereby.

(2) In determining whether any error, omission or irregularity in any proceeding under this Sanhita, or any error, or irregularity in any sanction for the prosecution has occasioned a failure of justice, the Court shall have regard to the fact whether the objection could and should have been raised at an earlier stage in the proceedings.

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What was BNSS Section 511 in the CrPC?

BNSS Section 511 (Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity) replaces Section 465 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 465 is now BNSS 511.

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