Inquest Under BNSS 175-176
Definition
The successor to CrPC 174 inquest. The Executive Magistrate or police officer records the apparent cause of death at the scene; for poisoning deaths the inquest panchnama lists everything the IO collected and seized.
- Field
- Indian criminal procedure, death investigation
- Statute
- BNSS Sections 175-176
- Predecessor
- CrPC Section 174 inquest
- Conducted by
- Executive Magistrate or police officer
Common questions
What does the inquest panchnama record in a poisoning death?+
It lists everything the investigating officer collected and seized at the scene, such as containers, suspected poison samples, and vomitus, alongside the apparent cause of death, forming the documentary link between scene and laboratory.
How does the BNSS inquest differ in substance from the old CrPC 174 inquest?+
The renumbering under BNSS largely carries forward the same procedural function of recording apparent cause of death at the scene, with BNSS being the successor statute that replaced the CrPC after India's 2023 criminal law reforms.
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