Section 237 BNSS — Words in charge taken in sense of law under which offence is punishable

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Official PDF page 77

237. In every charge words used in describing an offence shall be deemed to have been used in the sense attached to them respectively by the law under which such offence is punishable.

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