Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

The newly enacted criminal code that replaced the British-era Indian Penal Code (IPC). It modernizes legal definitions, includes community service punishments, and targets organized crime.

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023 is the primary code of criminal offenses in India, replacing the Indian Penal Code of 1860. It streamlines sections, introduces community service for petty offenses, repeals the offense of sedition under a new name (treason against the state), and codifies provisions related to terrorism, organized crime, and mob lynching.