Description
The Three Pillars of Indian Criminal Law: BNS, BNSS and BSA offers a structured and accessible introduction to India’s new criminal-law framework. Written by Adv. Sneha Sunil Arekar, the book explains how the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) work together as the substantive, procedural, and evidentiary foundations of contemporary criminal justice.
Beginning with the fundamentals of criminal law, the book explores criminal liability, actus reus, mens rea, intention, knowledge, negligence, causation, stages of crime, classification of offences, and constitutional safeguards. It then examines the BNS, including punishments, general exceptions, private defence, abetment, conspiracy, offences against women and children, offences against persons and property, organised crime, terrorism, and offences affecting the State.
The BNSS section focuses on criminal courts, arrest and the rights of arrested persons, FIRs, investigation, search and seizure, forensic procedures, charges, trials, bail, sentencing, appeals, and victim rights. The BSA section addresses relevancy of facts, admissions and confessions, expert opinions, documentary and oral evidence, electronic and digital evidence, burden of proof, presumptions, and examination of witnesses.
With comparisons to the earlier IPC, CrPC, and Indian Evidence Act, along with practical case-oriented material and specimen applications, this book is a useful reference for law students, advocates, legal professionals, law-enforcement personnel, academicians, and readers seeking to understand India’s evolving criminal justice system.
