CaseMinister
CaseMinister › Sections › BNSS › Section 511

BNSS Section 511: Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity

Section 511 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity. It replaces CrPC 465 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 511

511. (1) Subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, no finding, sentence or order passed by a Court of competent jurisdiction shall be reversed or altered by a Court of appeal, confirmation of revision on account of any error, omission or irregularity in the complaint, summons, warrant, proclamation, order, judgment or other proceedings before or during trial or in any inquiry or other proceedings under this Sanhita, or any error, or irregularity in any sanction for the prosecution, unless in the opinion of that Court, a failure of justice has in fact been occasioned thereby.

(2) In determining whether any error, omission or irregularity in any proceeding under this Sanhita, or any error, or irregularity in any sanction for the prosecution has occasioned a failure of justice, the Court shall have regard to the fact whether the objection could and should have been raised at an earlier stage in the proceedings.

Defect or error not to make attachment unlawful.

CrPC sections replaced

Ask CaseMinister about BNSS 511

Get the judgments that apply this section, with the paragraph relied on in each and what later Benches said about it. Two answers free on WhatsApp, no signup.

← BNSS 510BNSS 512 →