The Karnataka High Court has directed the State to ensure that the police are properly informed and sensitized about registering crimes under the BNS instead of the IPC.
The Court made this observation after noting that the police seemed to be unaware of the fact that the IPC had been replaced by the BNS on July 1, 2024.
The direction was issued by Justice M Nagaprasanna during the hearing of a petition filed by an individual named Geetha.
The petition challenged a first information report (FIR) that had been registered by the local police on July 1.
The police had charged Geetha and her co-accused under various sections of the IPC, including those related to criminal trespassing and disturbing public peace.
The petitioner alleged that the FIR was filed in response to a contempt petition she had previously filed against the police.
Justice Nagaprasanna highlighted that the FIR was registered on July 1, the day the BNS replaced the IPC, yet the police had still chosen to register the case under the IPC instead of the BNS.
The Court ordered an interim stay on further investigation in the case and directed the State to sensitize all jurisdictional stations to register crimes only under the BNS and not the IPC.
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