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CrPC Section 260 in BNSS: Section 283

Power to try summarily

Section 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Power to try summarily) corresponds to Section 283 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.

Text of BNSS Section 283

283. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Sanhita— (a) any Chief Judicial Magistrate; (b) Magistrate of the first class, shall try in a Summary way all or any of the following offences: —

(i) theft, under sub-section (2) of section 303, section 305 or section 306 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 where the value of the property stolen does not exceed twenty thousand rupees;

(ii) receiving or retaining stolen property, under sub-section (2) of section 317 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, where the value of the property does not exceed twenty thousand rupees;

(iii) assisting in the concealment or disposal of stolen property under sub-section (5) of section 317 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, where the value of such property does not exceed twenty thousand rupees;

(iv) offences under sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 331 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023;

(v) insult with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, under section

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