CrPC Section 215 — Effect of errors

Summary

An error in naming the offence or stating details that must be included in the charge, or leaving out the offence or those details, is not treated as material at any stage of the case unless the accused was actually misled by it and it caused a failure of justice.

Official Text

No error in stating either the offence or the particulars required to be stated in the charge, and no omission to state the offence or those particulars, shall be regarded at any stage of the case as material, unless the accused was in fact misled by such error or omission, and it has occasioned a failure of justice.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNSS §238 — Effect of errors