BNSS Section 218: Prosecution of Judges and public servants
CrPC Section 197 is covered by BNSS Section 218.
- BNSS 218CrPC: 197Changed
Prosecution of Judges and public servants.
The BNS sections replace the corresponding IPC sections. A second proviso to 218(1)(b) is added, which provides that such Government shall take a decision within a period of one hundred and twenty days from the date of receipt of the request for sanction, and in case it fails to do so, the sanction shall be deemed to have been accorded by such Government. This will curb the tendency to help an accused public servant by such delay tactics.
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 214: Additional Sessions Judges to try cases made over to them · CrPC 194
- BNSS 391: Certain Judges and Magistrates not to try certain offences when committed before themselves · CrPC 352
- BNSS 29: Powers of Judges and Magistrates exercisable by their successors-in-office · CrPC 35
- BNSS 410: Confirmation or new sentence to be signed by two Judges · CrPC 369
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