Section 203 Earlier CrPC 183
Offence committed on journey or voyage
Chapter 14: Jurisdiction of the criminal courts in inquiries and trials
When an offence is committed whilst the person by or against whom, or the thing in respect of which, the offence is committed is in the course of performing a journey or voyage, the offence may be inquired into or tried by a Court through or into whose local jurisdiction that person or thing passed in the course of that journey or voyage.
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 200Place of trial where act is an offence by reason of relation to other offenceCrPC 180
- 201Place of trial in case of certain offencesCrPC 181
- 202Offences committed by means of electronic communications, letters, etcCrPC 182
- 204Place of trial for offences triable togetherCrPC 184
- 205Power to order cases to be tried in different sessions divisionsCrPC 185
- 206High Court to decide, in case of doubt, district where inquiry or trial shall take placeCrPC 186