Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter IX: Security for Keeping the Peace and for Good Behaviour
Section 125: Security for keeping peace on conviction
In plain words
When a Court of Session or first class Magistrate convicts someone of certain offences and thinks security for keeping the peace is needed, it can order them, when sentencing, to sign a bond or bail bond to keep the peace for up to three years.
- The offences include most offences against public tranquillity, offences involving assault, criminal force or mischief, criminal intimidation, and offences causing or likely to cause a breach of the peace.
- If the conviction is set aside, the bond becomes void.
- An appeal or revision court can also make this order.
A simplified explanation, prepared with AI assistance from the official text below and checked automatically against it for numbers and cross-references. The official text is the law and prevails over this summary. Not legal advice.
Official text
(1) When a Court of Session or Court of a Magistrate of the first class convicts a person of any of the offences specified in sub-section (2) or of abetting any such offence and is of opinion that it is necessary to take security from such person for keeping the peace, the Court may, at the time of passing sentence on such person, order him to execute a bond or bail bond, for keeping the peace for such period, not exceeding three years, as it thinks fit..
(2) The offences referred to in sub-section (1) are—-
(a) any offence punishable under Chapter XI of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (45 of 2023), other than an offence punishable under sub-section (1) of section 193 or section 196 or section 197 thereof;
(b) any offence which consists of, or includes, assault or using criminal force or committing mischief;
(c) any offence of criminal intimidation;
(d) any other offence which caused, or was intended or known to be likely to cause, a breach of the peace.
(3) If the conviction is set aside on appeal or otherwise, the bond or bail bond so executed shall become void.
(4) An order under this section may also be made by an Appellate Court or by a Court when exercising its powers of revision.
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Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 12 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 125
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