Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 6
Classes of Criminal Courts
In one line
BNSS Section 6 deals with classes of criminal courts and replaces CrPC 6.
Bare act text — BNSS 6
6. Classes of Criminal Courts.
Besides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law, other than this Sanhita, there shall be, in every State, the following classes of Criminal Courts, namely:— (i) Courts of Session; (ii) Judicial Magistrates of the first class; (iii) Judicial Magistrates of the second class; and (iv) Executive Magistrates.
What changed from the CrPC
- CrPC 6 → BNSS 6: Words "in any Metropolitan area, Metropolitan Magistrates" are excluded.
Frequently asked
What was BNSS Section 6 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 6 (Classes of Criminal Courts) replaces Section 6 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 6 is now BNSS 6.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 1 — Short title, extent and commencement
- BNSS 2 — Definitions
- BNSS 3 — Construction of references
- BNSS 4 — Trial of offences under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and other laws
- BNSS 5 — Saving
- BNSS 7 — Territorial divisions
- BNSS 8 — Court of Session
- BNSS 9 — Courts of Judicial Magistrates
- BNSS 10 — Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc
- BNSS 11 — Special Judicial Magistrates