BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA
2 BNS: Various Definitions
Subsection 6 of 2 BNS: Death
Subsection 14 of 2 BNS: Injury
Subsection 17 of 2 BNS: Life
20 -24 BNS: Criminal Responsibility (based on age, mental illness and intoxication)
20 BNS: Child < 7 years, not responsible
21 BNS: 7-12 years, +/- responsibility, court decision
22 BNS: Criminal responsibility of Mentally ill (McNaughten’s)
23 BNS: Involuntary intoxication
24 BNS: Voluntary intoxication
25 – 30 BNS: Consent
25 BNS: Act not intended and not known to likely to cause death or grievous hurt, done by
consent.
26 BNS: Act not intended to cause death, done in good faith for person's benefit by consent
(e.g. surgeon doing risky surgery with consent).
27 BNS: Act in good faith for a person <12 years of age, or mentally ill by consent of the
guardian.
28 BNS: Consent under fear, misconception, < 12 year, mentally unsound, intoxication not
valid
29 BNS: Consent for acts which are offence is not valid (e.g. criminal abortion)
30 BNS: Act done in good faith for benefit of a person “without consent” in emergency
63 – 79 BNS: Sexual Offences
63 BNS: Def. Of Rape
Minimum age of girl for consent for sex: 18 yrs
64 BNS: Punishment for rape (10 years to Life)
65 BNS: Punishment for Rape in certain cases
< 16 yrs of girl (20 years to Life)
< 12 yrs of girl (20 years to Death)
66 BNS: Causing death/ vegetative state of victim while committing rape (20 yrs- Death)
67 BNS: Sex by husband during separation (2-7yrs)
68 BNS: Sex by person in authority (5-10 yrs)
69 BNS: Sex by using deceitful means, e.g. false promise of marriage (upto 10 years)
70 BNS: Gang rape
> 18 years (20yrs - life)
< 18 years (Life imprisonment- death)
71 BNS: Repeat offender (Life imprisonment - death)
72 BNS: Disclosure of identity of rape victim (upto 2 years)
73 BNS: Publishing any matter related to court proceedings (upto 2 years)
74 BNS: Sexual assault by criminal force (1-5 yrs)
75 BNS: Sexual harassment
physical contact / request for sexual favours / showing pornography (upto 3 years)
b) Sexually coloured remarks (upto 1 year)
76 BNS: Removal of clothes of woman (3-7 years)
77 BNS: Voyeurism
1st Offence (1-3 years)
2nd Offence (3-7 years)
78 BNS: Stalking
1st Offence (upto 3 years)
2nd Offence (upto 5 years)
79 BNS: Word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of woman. (upto 3 years)
80 – 87 BNS: Offences related to marriage
80 BNS: Dowry Death. It is death of women within 7 years of marriage (7 yrs to life)
85 BNS: Women subjected to cruelty by husband or in laws (upto 3 years)
88 – 92 BNS: Criminal Abortion
88 BNS: Criminal abortion with mother’s consent
89 BNS Abortion without mother’s consent
90 BNS: Death of mother due to abortion
91 BNS: Act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause to die after birth.
92 BNS: Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide eg. Hitting
abdomen
93 – 99 BNS: Offences against children
93 BNS: Child <12 yrs abandoned by parents
94 BNS: Newborn death concealment
100 - 113 BNS: Offences affecting Life (murder, suicide etc.)
100 BNS: Def. Of Culpable homicide
101 BNS: Def. Of Murder
103 BNS: Punishment for Murder
105 BNS: Punishment for Culpable homicide not amounting to murder
106 BNS: Death due to negligence (Punishment up to 5 years; but for medical negligence up to 2 years)
107, 108 BNS: Abetment of suicide
109 BNS: Attempt to murder
110 BNS: Attempt to culpable homicide
114-125 BNS: Hurt, Grievous Hurt
114 BNS: Def. Of hurt
115 BNS: "Voluntarily” causing hurt
116 BNS: Def. Of grievous hurt
117 BNS: "Voluntarily” causing grievous hurt
118 BNS: Hurt or G. Hurt by “dangerous weapon”
122 BNS: Hurt or G. Hurt on “Provocation”
123 BNS: Hurt by “Poison”
124 BNS: G. Hurt by Acid (Throwing or administrating etc)
128 – 136 BNS: Criminal Force and Assault
129: Defines criminal force
130: Defines Assault (attempt or threat to use criminal force)
227 – 246 BNS: False Evidence
227 BNS: Perjury definition (Giving false evidence)
228 BNS: Fabricating false evidence
229 BNS: Punishment for perjury (false evidence- upto 7 years)
234 BNS: Issuing False certificates
238 BNS: disappearance of evidence of offence
296 BNS: Obscene acts (Exhibitionism)