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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Repealed w.e.f. 1 July 2024

Section 294 CrPC - No formal proof of certain Documents

Section 294 CrPC is now Section 330 of the BNSS - the BNSS replaced the CrPC on 1 July 2024.
Act
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Section
294 - No formal proof of certain Documents
New provision
Section 330 BNSS

CrPC → BNSS: what changed

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Section 330 BNSS Modified Two new provisos are added. Time limit of thirty days for acceptance or denial of the genuineness of the document, provided the Court may relax the time limit as stated in the first proviso . A nd the second proviso states that experts should be called only if he is disputed by any parties during the trial. The w ords “ m ay be prescribed by the State Government” is replaced by “the State Government may, by rules, provide”, IPS , Director, CAPT Bhopal

Section 294 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 deals with no formal proof of certain Documents. Under the new law this is Section 330 of the BNSS.

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