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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