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BNSS Section 415: Appeals from convictions

Section 415 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with appeals from convictions. It replaces CrPC 374 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 415

415. (1) Any person convicted on a trial held by a High Court in its extraordinary original criminal jurisdiction may appeal to the Supreme Court.

(2) Any person convicted on a trial held by a Sessions Judge or an Additional Sessions Judge or on a trial held by any other Court in which a sentence of imprisonment for more than seven years has been passed against him or against any other person convicted at the same trial, may appeal to the High Court.

(3) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), any person,—

(a) convicted on a trial held by Magistrate of the first class, or of the second class; or

(b) sentenced under section 364; or

(c) in respect of whom an order has been made or a sentence has been passed under section 401 by any Magistrate,

may appeal to the Court of Session.

(4) When an appeal has been filed against a sentence passed under section

CrPC sections replaced

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