Law

Two Years Later: How India’s New Criminal Codes are Reshaping Public Justice

On July 1, 2026, India marked exactly two years since it did the unthinkable: tearing up its 150-year-old colonial criminal codes overnight. The transition from the British-era IPC and CrPC to the new BNS, BNSS, and BSA was billed as a historic leap toward a faster, more digitized justice system. Now, two years into this legal overhaul, fresh government performance data reveals a striking divide between high-tech policing successes and the grinding reality of courtroom confusion.