BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 197 — Ordinary place of inquiry and trial.

Replaces CrPC Section 177.

Every offence shall ordinarily be inquired into and tried by a Court within whose local jurisdiction it was committed.

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