Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 237: Words in charge taken in sense of law under which offence is punishable

Chapter XVIII — The Charge

237. In every charge words used in describing an offence shall be deemed to have been used in the sense attached to them respectively by the law under which such offence is punishable.

Source: official text of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Ministry of Home Affairs).