The Delhi High Court and the Punjab & Haryana High Court interpreted the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Samhita (BNSS) for the first time, alongside two other criminal laws. The courts determined whether pending cases should proceed under the old procedures of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) or under the new BNSS regime. Justice Pratibha M Singh applied Section 531 of the BNSS to a trademark suit and continued proceedings under the CrPC. Justice Anoop Chitkara addressed a delay application in a criminal revision petition and ruled that it should proceed under CrPC provisions as if the BNSS had not come into effect for this case. Mandeep Singh’s delayed petition was accepted under the CrPC regime, despite the repeal of CrPC and the enforcement of BNSS.
