BNSS Section 183: Recording of confessions and statements
CrPC Section 164 is covered by BNSS Section 183.
- BNSS 183CrPC: 164Changed
Recording of confessions and statements.
The newly added first proviso to Section 183(6)(a) provides that statements are to be recorded by a woman Magistrate as far as practicable.A newly added second proviso to Section 183(6)(a) provides for mandatory recording of a statement of witness by Magistrate relating to the offences punishable with imprisonment for ten years or more, imprisonment for life, or with death.The fourth proviso to Section 183(6)(a) provides for the recording of the statement of a temporarily or permanently mentally or physically disabled person through audio-video electronic means.
Source: Correspondence Table and Comparison Summary of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC), Central Academy for Police Training (CAPT), Bhopal — prepared by Anil Kishore Yadav, IPS, Director (PDF hosted on keralaprisons.gov.in). Check the bare act before relying on a section in court.
Related BNSS sections
- BNSS 105: Recording of search and seizure through audio-video electronic means
- BNSS 181: Statements to police and use thereof · CrPC 162
- BNSS 231: Supply of copies of statements and documents to accused in other cases triable by Court of Session · CrPC 208
- BNSS 299: Statements of accused not to be used · CrPC 265K
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