CrPC 345BNSS 384

What changed

• BNS sections replace IPC Sections.
• Fine increased to "one thousand rupees" from "two hundred rupees".

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Under Section 384 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 345 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 384

384. Procedure in certain cases of contempt .—(1) When any such offence as is described in section 2 10, section 213 , section 214 , section 215 or section 267 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023) is committed in the view or presence of any Civil, Criminal, or Revenue Court, the Court may cause the offender to be detain ed in custody, and may, at any time before the rising of the 135 Court on the same day, take cognizance of the offence and, after giving the offender a reasonable opportunity of showing cause why he should not be punished under this section, sentence the offen der to fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, and, in default of payment of fine, to simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, unless such fine be sooner paid. (2) In every such case the Court shall record the fact constituting the off ence, with the statement (if any) made by the offender, as well as the finding and sentence. (3) If the offence is under section 267 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), the record shall show the nature and stage of the judicial proceeding in which the Court interrupted or insulted was sitting, and the nature of the interruption or insult.