About Newlaws.in

Not legal advice. Newlaws.in is a text-level mapping and comparison tool. It does not interpret the law, give legal advice, or replace a lawyer. Always verify against the bare act and consult a qualified advocate for any specific matter.

India's criminal-law landscape changed substantially on 1 July 2024 with the commencement of three new codes:

  • Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) — replaces the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) for substantive criminal law.
  • Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) — replaces the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC).
  • Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA) — replaces the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA).

For every practitioner, student, journalist, or interested citizen, the immediate problem is: where did each old section go? Newlaws.in is a text-level lookup that answers that question for every IPC / CrPC / IEA section, with a focus on showing what changed in the words.

What this site is not

This site is not a legal-research tool, a case-law database, or an advice channel. It does not predict how courts will interpret the new codes. It does not replace a qualified advocate. It is a text-level mapping and comparison tool, with mandatory field-level labels indicating the confidence and source of every claim.

How it is built

See the methodology page for the full process. In short: AI-assisted text extraction from bare-act PDFs, two-model cross-check on canonical fields, structured uncertainty flags, and human verification before any page is marked text-verified or published.

Open data

The mapping edges are open data (MIT licensed). You can find the corpus and the tooling at the project repository. Explanatory prose (summaries, FAQs, examples) is proprietary.

Feedback

See the corrections page to submit a correction or flag an error.