BNSS 202 — Offences committed by means of electronic communications, letters, etc.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

(1) Any offence
which includes cheating, may, if the deception is practised by means of electronic communications or letters
or telecommunication messages, be inquired into or tried by any Court within whose local jurisdiction such
electronic communications or letters or messages were sent or were received; and any offence of cheating
and dishonestly inducing delivery of property may be inquired into or tried by a Court within whose local
jurisdiction the property was delivered by the person deceived or was received by the accused person.
(2) Any offence punishable under section 82 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 may be inquired
into  or  tried  by  a  Court  within  whose  local  jurisdiction  the  offence  was committed  or  the  offender  last
resided with his or her spouse by the first marriage, or the wife by the first marriage has taken up permanent
residence after the commission of the offence.

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