BNS chapter
This chapter includes offences relating to homicide, hurt, assault, kidnapping, and sexual offences under the BNS.
Chapter 3 covers the most serious offences against the person, including murder, hurt, assault, kidnapping, and sexual violence. In the BNS, these offences are grouped around harm to the body and the consequences are framed with modern language and punishment formats.
Many familiar IPC offences in this chapter — like IPC 302, 376, 420 and 498A — now appear as BNS sections with different numbering and slightly updated definitions. Chapter 3 helps you find the right BNS section for offences that used to be listed under the IPC body-offence chapters.
This chapter page links to the most important IPC→BNS section mappings in the same offence cluster.
Reference only — not legal advice. Confirm the chapter and sections against the official bare Act.