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The BNSS Honeymoon is Over for Investigating Agencies: Supreme Court Tightens the Leash on Arrests and Mechanical FIRs

For criminal practitioners, the transition from the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) has been a period of cautious recalibration. While the State championed the new criminal codes as a pan...

25 Jul 2026BNSS, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
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Beyond Find-and-Replace: The 2026 Clampdown on BNSS Cognizance and the Weaponization of Community Service

The Honeymoon is Over for the New Criminal Codes If 2024 was the year of legislative whiplash and 2025 was the year of transition, 2026 is officially the year of judicial reckoning for India’s new criminal framework. The initial panic over memorizing...

5 Jun 2026BNS, BNSS
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The Great BNSS Loophole: How Section 482 is Bypassing the SC/ST Act’s Anticipatory Bail Bar

The Drafting Blunder Defense Lawyers Are Exploiting We are now deep enough into the post-July 2024 criminal law regime to see the cracks in the foundation. While the Home Ministry touted the transition from the CrPC to the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha ...

29 May 2026BNSS, BNS
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The Supreme Court Lays Down the Law on BNSS Sanctions: Why Your Strategy for Summons Cases Needs an Immediate Overhaul

The Honeymoon Period for the New Criminal Codes is Officially Over For the first eighteen months following the enforcement of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), trial courts and high courts grappled w...

24 May 2026BNSS, BNS
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Jail, Not Bail: Supreme Court Rescues Liberty from Poor BNSS Drafting in Narayan v. State of MP

The Teething Pains of the BNSS and the Magisterial Default to "Jail" When the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) in July 2024, the legal fraternity was promised a modernized, liberty-oriente...

21 May 2026BNSS, Section 480(3) BNSS
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Supreme Court Halts BNSS Overreach on Bail: Why the 'Narayan' Ruling is a Lifeline for Trial Lawyers

The End of the BNSS Bail Panic Ever since the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) replaced the CrPC, trial courts across the country have been gripped by a peculiar paralysis. In their anxiety to parse the new statutory language, many Mag...

20 May 2026BNS, BNSS

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