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BNSS Section 116: Identifying unlawfully acquired property

Section 116 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with identifying unlawfully acquired property. It replaces CrPC 105D of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 116

116, the Court has reason to believe that all or any of such properties are proceeds of crime, it may serve a notice upon such person (hereinafter referred to as the person affected) calling upon him within a period of thirty days specified in the notice to indicate the source of income, earnings or assets, out of which or by means of which he has acquired such property, the evidence on which he relies and other relevant information and particulars, and to show cause why all or any of such properties, as the case may be, should not be declared to be proceeds of crime and forfeited to the Central Government.

(2) Where a notice under sub-section (1) to any person specifies any property as being held on behalf of such person by any other person, a copy of the notice shall also be served upon such other person.

Forfeiture of property in certain cases.

CrPC sections replaced

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