On July 1, 2024, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita replaced the Indian Penal Code of 1860. A new procedure code, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Section 531 of the new procedure code saves what was already under way. If an appeal, application, trial, inquiry or investigation was pending before July 1, 2024, it continues under the old code.
For such cases, the old codes continue to apply.