CrPC 110BNSS 129

What changed

• BNS sections replace the corresponding IPC sections.
• Clauses (e) the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955; (22 of 1955) and (g) The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006) is added newly under subsection (f) (i).
• "Bond with sureties" are replaced by "bail bond".

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Under Section 129 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 129

129. Security for good behaviour from habitual offenders.—When an Executive Magistrate receives information that there is within his local jurisdiction a person who— (a) is by habit a robber, house-breaker, thief, or forger; or (b) is by habit a receiver of stolen property knowing the same to have been stolen; or (c) habitually protects or harbours thieves, or aids in the concealment or disposal of stolen property; or (d) habitually commits, or attem pts to commit, or abets the commission of, the offence of kidnapping, abduction, extortion, cheating or mischief, or any offence punishable under Chapter X of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, or under section 178, section 179, section 180 or section 181 of that Sanhita; or (e) habitually commits, or attempts to commit, or abets the commission of, offences, involving a breach of the peace; or (f) habitually commits, or attempts to commit, or abets the commission of— (i) any offence under one or more of the following Acts, namely:— (a) the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (23 of 1940.); (b) the Foreigners Act, 1946 (31 of 1946); (c) the Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (19 of 1952); (d) the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955); (e) the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955); (f) the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962); (g) the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (34 of 2006); or (ii) any offence punishable under any other law providing for the prevention of hoarding or profiteering or of adulteration of food or drugs or of corruption; or (g) is so desperate and dangerous as to render his being at large without security hazardous to the community, 53 such Magistrate may, in the manner hereinafter provided, require such p erson to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bail bond, for his good behaviour for such period, not exceeding three years, as the Magistrate thinks fit.