CrPC 406BNSS 446

What changed

• "not exceeding one thousand rupees" is excluded.

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Under Section 446 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 406 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 446

446. Power of Supreme Court to transfer cases and appeals.—(1) Whenever it is made to appear to the Supreme Court that an order under this section is expedient for the ends of justice, it may direct that any particular case or appeal be transferred from one High Court to another High Court or from a Cri minal Court subordinate to one High Court to another Criminal Court of equal or superior jurisdiction subordinate to another High Court. (2) The Supreme Court may act under this section only on the application of the Attorney -General of India or of a party interested, and every such application shall be made by motion, which shall, except when the applicant is the Attorney -General of India or the Advocate -General of the State, be supported by affidavit or affirmation. (3) Where any application for the exerc ise of the powers conferred by this section is dismissed, the Supreme Court may, if it is of opinion that the application was frivolous or vexatious, order the applicant to pay by way of compensation to any person who has opposed the application such sum as it may consider appropriate in the circumstances of the case.