Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 525
Cases in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested
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BNSS Section 525 deals with cases in which judge or magistrate is personally interested and replaces CrPC 479.
Bare act text — BNSS 525
525. Cases in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested.
No Judge or Magistrate shall, except with the permission of the Court to which an appeal lies from his Court, try or commit for trial any case to or in which he is a party, or personally interested, and no Judge or Magistrate shall hear an appeal from any judgment or order passed or made by himself. Explanation.---A Judge or Magistrate shall not be deemed to be a party to, or personally interested in, any case by reason only that he is concerned therein in a public capacity, or by reason only that he has viewed the place in which an offence is alleged to have been committed, or any other place in which any other transaction material to the case is alleged to have occurred, and made an inquiry in connection with the case.
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What was BNSS Section 525 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 525 (Cases in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested) replaces Section 479 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 479 is now BNSS 525.
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- BNSS 522 — Forms
- BNSS 523 — Power of High Court to make rules
- BNSS 524 — Power to alter functions allocated to Executive Magistrate in certain cases
- BNSS 526 — Practising advocate not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts
- BNSS 527 — Public servant concerned in sale not to purchase or bid for property
- BNSS 528 — Saving of inherent powers of High Court
- BNSS 529 — Duty of High Court to exercise continuous superintendence over Courts
- BNSS 530 — Trial and proceedings to be held in electronic mode