BNSS §116
Identifying unlawfully acquired property.
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105D. Identifying unlawfully acquired property.—(1) The Court shall, under sub-section (1), or on receipt of a letter of request under sub-section
(3) of section 105C, direct any police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police to take all steps necessary for tracing and identifying such property.
(2) The steps referred to in sub-section
(1) may include any inquiry, investigation or survey in respect of any person, place, property, assets, documents, books of account in any bank or public financial institutions or any other relevant matters.
(3) Any inquiry, investigation or survey referred to in sub-section
(2) shall be carried out by an officer mentioned in sub-section
(1) in accordance with such directions issued by the said Court in this behalf.
116.
(1) The Court shall, under sub-section (1), or on receipt of a letter of request under sub-section
(3) of section 115, direct any police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police to take all steps necessary for tracing and identifying such property.
(2) The steps referred to in sub-section
(1) may include any inquiry, investigation or survey in respect of any person, place, property, assets, documents, books of account in any bank or public financial institutions or any other relevant matters.
(3) Any inquiry, investigation or survey referred to in sub-section
(2) shall be carried out by an officer mentioned in sub-section
(1) in accordance with such directions issued by the said Court in this behalf.
What changedAI-inferred
Assistance in relation to attachment, etc..
Old position
CrPC 105D is concerned with Identifying unlawfully acquired property. Identifying unlawfully acquired property
New position
BNSS 114 preserves the framework with drafting modernisations as required by the new code. Topic: securing transfer of persons.. Where a Court in India, in relation to a criminal matter, desires that a warrant for arrest of any person to attend or produce a document or other thing issued by it shall be executed in any place in a contracting State, it shall send such
BNSS 114 (securing transfer of persons.) preserves the framework of CrPC 105D. BNSS 114 retains the operative provisions in substantively the same form, with drafting modernisation and structural updates as required by the new code. BNSS 114 text: Where a Court in India, in relation to a...
Editorial deltaAI-indicated (source-linked)
BNSS-116 reproduces the operative content of CRPC-105D (Identifying unlawfully acquired property) with text-overlap 0.93 on the supplied bare-act extracts. The original PRS-chart-based pairing (BNSS-114) appears to have been a parsing artifact: text-comparison shows that destination has a different topic. The corrected pairing reflects the actual section-content correspondence. Cross-references may need to be remapped per locked doctrine #11.
Transitional note (repeal & savings)
For matters initiated before 1 July 2024, CrPC 105D continues to apply. For matters from that date forward, BNSS 114 applies. The transition is governed by the repeal-and-savings clause in the new code (BNS 358 / BNSS 531 / BSA 170 as the case may be); pending proceedings under the old code carry forward unaffected.
Frequently asked
BNSS 114 (securing transfer of persons.). The relationship is classified as substantively_same — see the change-note above for the textual delta.
Sources
- India Code — Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
- Gazette of India — Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
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Newlaws.in, CRPC §105D → BNSS §116 Mapping Page, last updated 2026-05-01, accessed 2026-06-15, https://newlaws.in/bnss/116.
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