Section 288: Language of record and judgment.

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023Central Act · Act 46 of 2023

(1) Every such record and judgment shall be written in the language of the Court.

(2) The High Court may authorise any Magistrate empowered to try offences summarily to prepare the aforesaid record or judgment or both by means of an officer appointed in this behalf by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, and the record or judgment so prepared shall be signed by such Magistrate.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section	288
Marginal note	Language of record and judgment.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	2

Judgments that turned on this provision

BLAPL/11887/2025 of SK. BASAR ALI Vs STATE OF ODISHAHigh Court of Orissa · 2025-12-15
BLAPL/11452/2025 of BISWANATH PARIDA Vs STATE OF ODISHAHigh Court of Orissa · 2025-12-08

Find the provision, not just read it

The full text above is free, and it stays free. What a free CourtMesh account adds is everything you cannot do by reading one page at a time:

Search 49,000+ Central and State enactments by what a provision says, not by its number
Jump from any section to every judgment that has applied it
Search 300 million+ Indian court records alongside the statute
Ask a research agent to find and read the case law on a provision for you

Free account. No card. About a minute to create.

Create a free account

Need this as data, not as a page? The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 is one of 49,000+ enactments on CourtMesh. The Indian court cases API serves the case law that cites these provisions over JSON, with API documentation and plans and pricing. See also the judgment library.