CrPC 294BNSS 330

What changed

• Two new provisos are added.
• Time limit of thirty days for acceptance or denial of the genuineness of the document, provided the Court may relax the time limit as stated in the first proviso.
• And the second proviso states that experts should be called only if he is disputed by any parties during the trial.
• The words "may be prescribed by the State Government" is replaced by "the State Government may, by rules, provide".

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Under Section 330 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 294 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 330

330. No formal proof of certain documents.—(1) Where any document is filed before any Court by the prosecution or the accused, the particulars of every such document shall be included in a list and the prosecution or the accused or the advocate for the prosecution or the accused, if any, shall be called upon to admit or deny the genuineness of each such document soon after supply of such documents and in no case later than thirty days after such supply: Provided that the Court may, in its discretion, relax the time limit with reasons to be recorded in writing: Provided further that no expert shall be called to appear before the Court unless the report of such expert is disputed by any of the parties to the trial. (2) The list of documents shall be in such form as the State Government may, by rules, provide. (3) Where the genuineness of any document is not disputed, such document may be read in evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhit a without proof of the signature of the person by whom it purports to be signed: Provided that the Court may, in its discretion, require such signature to be proved.