Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
(1) The offences punishable under the sections of the Bharatiya
Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) specified in the first two columns of the Table next following may be
compounded by the persons mentioned in the third column of that Table: —
TABLE
Offence Section of the Bharatiya Nyaya
Sanhita, 2023 applicable
Person by whom offence
may be compounded
1 2 3
Enticing or taking away or
detaining with criminal intent a
married woman.
84 The husband of the woman
and the woman.
Voluntarily causing hurt. 115(2) The person to whom the hurt
is caused.
Voluntarily causing hurt on
provocation.
122(1) The person to whom the hurt
is caused.
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt
on grave and sudden provocation.
122(2) The person to whom the hurt
is caused.
Wrongfully restraining or
confining any person.
126(2), 127(2) The person restrained or
confined.
Wrongfully confining a person for
three days or more.
127(3) The person confined.
Wrongfully confining a person for
ten days or more.
127(4) The person confined.
Wrongfully confining a person in
secret.
127(6) The person confined.
Assault or use of criminal force. 131,133,136 The person assaulted or to
whom criminal force is used.
Uttering words, etc., with
deliberate intent to wound the
religious feelings of any person.
302 The person whose religious
feelings are intended to be
wounded.
Theft. 303(2) The owner of the property
stolen.
Dishonest misappropriation of
property.
314 The owner of the property
misappropriated.
Criminal breach of trust by a
carrier, wharfinger, etc.
316(3) The owner of the property in
respect of which the breach
of trust has been committed.
1 2 3
Dishonestly receiving stolen property knowing it to
be stolen.
317(2) The owner of the property stolen.
Assisting in the concealment or disposal of stolen
property, knowing it to be stolen.
317(5) The owner of the property stolen.
Cheating. 318(2) The person cheated.
Cheating by personation. 319(2) The person cheated.
Fraudulent removal or concealment of property,
etc., to prevent distribution among creditors.
320 The creditors who are affected
thereby.
Fraudulently preventing from being made available
for his creditors a debt or demand due to the
offender.
321 The creditors who are affected
thereby.
Fraudulent execution of deed of transfer containing
false statement of consideration.
322 The person affected thereby.
Fraudulent removal or concealment of property. 323 The person affected thereby.
Mischief, when the only loss or damage caused is
loss or damage to a private person.
324(2), 324(4) The person to whom the loss or
damage is caused.
Mischief by killing or maiming animal. 325 The owner of the animal.
Mischief by injury to works of irrigation by
wrongfully diverting water when the only loss or
damage caused is loss or damage to private person.
326(a) The person to whom the loss or
damage is caused.
Criminal trespass. 329(3) The person in possession of the
property trespassed upon.
House-trespass. 329(4) The person in possession of the
property trespassed upon.
House-trespass to commit an offence (other than
theft) punishable with imprisonment.
332(c) The person in possession of the
house trespassed upon.
Using a false trade or property mark. 345(3) The person to whom loss or injury is
caused by such use.
Counterfeiting a property mark used by another. 347(1) The person to whom loss or injury is
caused by such use.
1 2 3
Selling goods marked with a counterfeit property
mark.
349 The person to whom loss or injury is
caused by such use.
Criminal intimidation. 351(2), 351(3) The person intimidated.
Insult intended to provoke a breach of peace. 352 The person insulted.
Inducing person to believe himself an object of
divine displeasure.
354 The person induced.
Defamation, except such cases as are specified
against section 356(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya
Sanhita, 2023, (45 of 2023) column 1 of the Table
under sub-section (2).
356(2) The person defamed.
Printing or engraving matter, knowing it to be
defamatory.
356(3)
The person defamed.
Sale of printed or engraved substance containing
defamatory matter, knowing it to contain such
matter.
356(4) The person defamed.
Criminal breach of contract of service. 357 The person with whom the offender
has contracted.
(2) The offences punishable under the sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023)
specified in the first two columns of the Table next following may, with the permission of the Court before
which any prosecution for such offence is pending, be compounded by the persons mentioned in the third
column of that Table:.—
Table
Offence Section of the
Bharatiya Nyaya
Sanhita applicable
Person by whom offence may
be compounded
1 2 3
Word, gesture or act intended to insult the
modesty of a woman.
79 The woman whom it was
intended to insult or whose
privacy was intruded upon.
Marrying again during the life-time of a
husband or wife.
82(1) The husband or wife of the
person so marrying.
Causing miscarriage. 88 The woman to whom
miscarriage is caused.
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt. 117(2) The person to whom hurt is
caused.
1 2 3
Causing hurt by doing an act so rashly and
negligently as to endanger human life or
the personal safety of others.
125(a) The person to whom hurt is
caused.
Causing grievous hurt by doing an act so
rashly and negligently as to endanger
human life or the personal safety of others.
125(b) The person to whom hurt is
caused.
Assault or criminal force in attempting
wrongfully to confine a person.
135 The person assaulted or to
whom the force was used.
Theft, by clerk or servant of property in
possession of master.
306 The owner of the property
stolen.
Criminal breach of trust. 316(2) The owner of the property in
respect of which breach of
trust has been committed.
Criminal breach of trust by a clerk or
servant.
316(4) The owner of the property in
respect of which the breach of
trust has been committed.
Cheating a person whose interest the
offender was bound, either by law or by
legal contract, to protect.
318(3) The person cheated.
Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery
of property or the making, alteration or
destruction of a valuable security.
318(4) The person cheated.
Defamation against the President or the
Vice-President or the Governor of the State
or the Administrator of the Union territory
or a Minister in respect of his public
functions when instituted upon a complaint
made by the public prosecutor.
356(2) The person defamed.
(3) When an offence is compoundable under this section, the abetment of such offence or an attempt to
commit such offence (when such attempt is itself an offence) or where the accused is liable under
sub-section (5) of section 3 or section 190 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), may be
compounded in like manner.
(4) (a) When the person who would otherwise be competent to compound an offence under this
section is a child or of unsound mind, any person competent to contract on his behalf may, with the
permission of the Court, compound such offence;
(b) When the person who would otherwise be competent to compound an offence under this section is
dead, the legal representative, as defined in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) of such person
may, with the consent of the Court, compound such offence.
(5) When the accused has been committed for trial or when he has been convicted and an appeal is
pending, no composition for the offence shall be allowed without the leave of the Court to which he is
committed, or, as the case may be, before which the appeal is to be heard.
(6) A High Court or Court of Session acting in the exercise of its powers of revision under section 442
may allow any person to compound any offence which such person is competent to compound under this
section.
(7) No offence shall be compounded if the accused is, by reason of a previous conviction, liable either
to enhanced punishment or to a punishment of a different kind for such offence.
(8) The composition of an offence under this section shall have the effect of an acquittal of the accused
with whom the offence has been compounded.
(9) No offence shall be compounded except as provided by this section.