CrPC 31BNSS 25

What changed

• Sub section (1) is reframed but the essence is same.
• In subsection (2) (a) fourteen years is replaced by twenty years.

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Under Section 25 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 31 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 25

25. Sentence in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial.—(1) When a person is convicted at one trial of two or more offences, the Court may, subject to the provisions of section 9 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, sentence him for such offences, to the several punishments prescribed therefor which such Court is competent to inflict and the Court shall, considering the gravity of offences, order such punishments to run concurrently or consecutively. (2) In the case of consecutive sentences, it shall not be necess ary for the Court by reason only of the aggregate punishment for the several offences being in excess of the punishment which it is competent to inflict on conviction of a single offence, to send the offender for trial before a higher Court: Provided that— (a) in no case shall such person be sentenced to imprisonment for a longer period than twenty years; (b) the aggregate punishment shall not exceed twice the amount of punishment which the Court is competent to inflict for a single offence. (3) For the purpose of appeal by a convicted person, the aggregate of the consecutive sentences passed against him under this section shall be deemed to be a single sentence.