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BNSS Section 198: Place of inquiry or trial

Section 198 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with place of inquiry or trial. It replaces CrPC 178 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 198

198. (a) When it is uncertain in which of several local areas an offence was committed; or

(b) where an offence is committed partly in one local area and partly in another; or

(c) where an offence is a continuing one, and continues to be committed in more local areas than one; or

(d) where it consists of several acts done in different local areas,

it may be inquired into or tried by a Court having jurisdiction over any of such local areas.

Offence triable where act is done or consequence ensues.

CrPC sections replaced

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