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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 Act No. 46 of 2023

Chapter XXVI — GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO INQUIRIES AND TRIALS

Section 357. Procedure where accused does not understand proceedings.

Gazette p. 108

If the accused, though not a person of unsound mind, cannot be made to understand the proceedings, the Court may proceed with the inquiry or trial; and, in the case of a Court other than a High Court, if such proceedings result in a conviction, the proceedings shall be forwarded to the High Court with a report of the circumstances of the case, and the High Court shall pass thereon such order as it thinks fit.