CRL.M.A. 20996/2024 Exemption allowed, subject to just exceptions.

Let requisite compliances be made within 01 week.

The application stands disposed-of.

CRL.M.C. 5496/2024 By way of the present petition filed under section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 (‘ Cr.P.C .’), the petitioners seek quashing of case FIR No. 027/2013 dated 26.02.2013 registered under sections 498-A/406/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘ IPC ’) at P.S.:

Crime Women Cell.

2.Though the present petition has been filed under the provisions of the Cr.P.C ., in the opinion of this court, on a plain reading of section 531(2)(a) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 (‘ BNSS ’), proceedings are to be “… …disposed of, continued, held or made… …”

in accordance with the Cr.P.C . only in cases where such proceedings , viz. “ … …any appeal, application, trial, inquiry or investigation… … ”, were already pending immediately before the date on which the BNSS came into force, i.e. 01.07.2024. It appears therefore, that while inserting the repeal and savings provision in section 531 of the BNSS , the intention of Parliament was to not disrupt on-going proceedings by changing the governing law during th