Section 220. Prosecution of offences under section 85 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
No Court shall
take cognizance of an offence punishable under section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 except
upon a police report of facts which constitute such offence or upon a complaint made by the person
aggrieved by the offence or by her father, mother, brother, sister or by her father’s or mother’s brother or
sister or, with the leave of the Court, by any other person related to her by blood, marriage or adoption.
take cognizance of an offence punishable under section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 except
upon a police report of facts which constitute such offence or upon a complaint made by the person
aggrieved by the offence or by her father, mother, brother, sister or by her father’s or mother’s brother or
sister or, with the leave of the Court, by any other person related to her by blood, marriage or adoption.