BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 387 — Discharge of offender on submission of apology.
Replaces CrPC Section 348.
When any Court has under section 384 adjudged an offender to punishment, or has under section 385 forwarded him to a Magistrate for trial, for refusing or omitting to do anything which he was lawfully required to do or for any intentional insult or interruption, the Court may, in its discretion, discharge the offender or remit the punishment on his submission to the order or requisition of such Court, or on apology being made to its satisfaction.
Nearby sections
- 384 Procedure in certain cases of contempt.
- 385 Procedure where Court considers that case should not be dealt with under section 384.
- 386 When Registrar or Sub-Registrar to be deemed a Civil Court.
- 388 Imprisonment or committal of person refusing to answer or produce document.
- 389 Summary procedure for punishment for non-attendance by a witness in obedience to summons.
- 390 Appeals from convictions under sections 383, 384, 388 and 389.
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