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Is it cognisable? Is it bailable?

Nothing found for “IPC 268”

The government correspondence table, as we read it, gives no BNS section that is classified in the First Schedule for IPC section 268.

Every section the First Schedule classifies, by chapter of the BNS

Chapter IV: Of abetment, criminal conspiracy and attempt (sections 45 to 62)

Chapter V: Of offences against woman and child (sections 63 to 99)

Chapter VI: Of offences affecting the human body (sections 100 to 146)

Chapter VII: Of offences against the state (sections 147 to 158)

Chapter VIII: Of offences relating to the army, navy and air force (sections 159 to 168)

Chapter IX: Of offences relating to elections (sections 169 to 177)

Chapter X: Of offences relating to coin, currency-notes, bank-notes, and government stamps (sections 178 to 188)

Chapter XI: Of offences against the public tranquillity (sections 189 to 197)

Chapter XII: Of offences by or relating to public servants (sections 198 to 205)

Chapter XIII: Of contempts of the lawful authority of public servants (sections 206 to 226)

Chapter XIV: Of false evidence and offences against public justice (sections 227 to 269)

Chapter XV: Of offences affecting the public health, safety, convenience, decency and morals (sections 270 to 297)

Chapter XVI: Of offences relating to religion (sections 298 to 302)

Chapter XVII: Of offences against property (sections 303 to 334)

Chapter XVIII: Of offences relating to documents and to property marks (sections 335 to 350)

Chapter XIX: Of criminal intimidation, insult, annoyance, defamation, etc. (sections 351 to 357)

Offences against other laws (Part II of the Schedule)

OffenceCognisableBailableTriable by
“If punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for more than 7 years.”Cognizable.Non-bailable.Court of Session.
“If punishable with imprisonment for 3 years and upwards but not more than 7 years.”Cognizable.Non-bailable.Magistrate of the first class.
“If punishable with imprisonment for less than 3 years or with fine only.”Non-cognizable.Bailable.Any Magistrate.

BNSS First Schedule, Part II, Gazette page 189.

Source

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (No. 46 of 2023), Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, No. 54, 25 December 2023: First Schedule, pages 158-189; section 359 Tables, pages 108-111. Copy from the e-Gazette, https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/2023/250884.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-28). Chapters from The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (No. 45 of 2023), Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, No. 53, 25 December 2023, https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/2023/250883.pdf. IPC equivalents from the Bureau of Police Research and Development (Ministry of Home Affairs), correspondence table BNS to IPC, as read by the statute map (SCRUM-185), https://bprd.mha.gov.in/uploads/pdf/COMPARISON%20SUMMARY%20BNS%20to%20IPC%20.pdf.

The Schedule's words are shown as printed, joined across lines. The Schedule's own note: “(1) In regard to offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the entries in the second and third columns against a section the number of which is given in the first column are not intended as the definition of, and the punishment prescribed for, the offence in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, but merely as indication of the substance of the section.” (2) In this Schedule, (i) the expression "Magistrate of the first class" and "any Magistrate" does not include Executive Magistrates; (ii) the word "cognizable" stands for "a police officer may arrest without warrant"; and (iii) the word "non-cognizable" stands for "a police officer shall not arrest without warrant".

Not legal advice. This is the First Schedule and section 359 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 as published in the Gazette of India on 25 December 2023, not legal advice. We have not checked later amendments, State amendments or notifications, or how courts have read these entries. Check the Act before you rely on it.