CRPC479
CrPC to BNSS

Case in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested

Text carried over almost unchanged 90% Repealed 01 Jul 2024

CRPC 479 (Case in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested) corresponds most closely to BNSS 525, Cases in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested, on a text comparison scoring 90 per cent. The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 was repealed with effect from 01 Jul 2024, but conduct before that date is still charged, tried and appealed under it.

Repealed · Code of Criminal Procedure

Section 479 Case in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested

No Judge or Magistrate shall, except with the permission of the Court to which an appeal lies from his Court, try or commit for trial any case to or in which he is a party, or personally interested, and no Judge or Magistrate shall hear an appeal from any judgment or order passed or made by himself.

Explanation.-A Judge or Magistrate shall not be deemed to be a party to, or personally interested in, any case by reason only that he is concerned therein in a public capacity, or by reason only that he has viewed the place in which an offence is alleged to have been committed or any

1 Subs. by Act 45 of 1978, S. 34, for "State Legislature" (w.e.f. 18-12-1978). 2 Subs. by S.34 ibid, for "requires" (w.e.f. 18.12-1978).

3 Subs. by Act 63 of 1980, s.8 (w.e.f. 23-09-1980).

other place in which any other transaction material to the case is alleged to have occurred and made an inquiry in connection with the case.

In force · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita

Section 525 Cases in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested

No Judge or Magistrate shall, except with the permission of the Court to which an appeal lies from his Court, try or commit for trial any case to or in which he is a party, or personally interested, and no Judge or Magistrate shall hear an appeal from any judgment or order passed or made by himself.

Explanation.---A Judge or Magistrate shall not be deemed to be a party to, or personally interested in, any case by reason only that he is concerned therein in a public capacity, or by reason only that he has viewed the place in which an offence is alleged to have been committed, or any other place in which any other transaction material to the case is alleged to have occurred, and made an inquiry in connection with the case.

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The next closest matches, in order. Where a provision was split or merged, the answer is often more than one of these.

How this table was made, and what it is not

There is no official machine-readable correspondence between the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. The Ministry published comparison charts for human readers; nothing exists that a computer can check. So this is not an official mapping and we do not present it as one.

What it measures is how alike the text of two provisions is. For each provision of the old enactment we compare its words against every provision of the new one and report the closest, with the score. That works here because the new codes are largely a renumbering rather than a rewrite: where a provision carried over near-verbatim the match is self-evidencing, and you can see it for yourself, because both texts are set out side by side on every entry.

Where the law genuinely changed, the score falls and the entry says no close match found rather than offering a guess. Those entries matter: they are where the reform actually did something.

Check before you cite. A high score means the words are alike, not that a court has held the provisions equivalent. For that, read both texts and the Gazette.

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