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K. D. Gaur's Criminal Manual – New Criminal Major Laws (Whitesmann, 5th Edition 2025)

Whitesmann's Criminal Manual: New Criminal Major Laws by Dr. K. D. Gaur is a single hardbound volume carrying the complete, updated bare text of India's three new criminal statutes, together with the comparative apparatus a practitioner actually needs while the profession makes the transition from the old code. This is the Fifth Edition, 2025, updated to 1 July 2025.

Statutes contained in this volume

• The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 45 of 2023) — the successor to the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
• The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023) — the successor to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
• The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (Act No. 47 of 2023) — the successor to the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
• The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, with the Rules.

All three Sanhitas came into force with effect from 1 July 2024, and the text in this edition is as amended and updated to 1 July 2025.

What makes this manual different

A bare act alone is of limited use during the changeover years, because every brief, charge-sheet and judgment still has to be read against the old provision. This manual is built around that problem:

• Two-way comparative tables — IPC to BNS and BNS to IPC; CrPC to BNSS and BNSS to CrPC; Indian Evidence Act to BSA and BSA to the Evidence Act. Section numbers can be traced in either direction without a second book.
• Comparative tables of enhanced punishments and increased fines introduced by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, set against the corresponding IPC penalties.
• Special highlights and explanation of the new provisions — the offences, definitions and procedures that have no counterpart in the repealed law, drawn out and explained rather than left for the reader to find.
• Reference to the old sections under every new section, printed with the text itself.
• Comparative analysis and juxtaposition of the new provisions with the corresponding old ones.
• Classification of offences — cognizable or non-cognizable, bailable or non-bailable, compoundable or not, and the court of trial.
• Landmark judgments and Supreme Court guidelines, together with the latest case law decided under the BNS and BNSS.
• Legal maxims, important words and phrases and short notes for quick courtroom reference.
• Tips, short notes and a detailed subject index for fast navigation during hearings and examinations.

Who this book is for

• Advocates and criminal law practitioners who need the three Sanhitas and the old-to-new concordance in one volume on the table.
• Judicial officers and court staff working with charges, bail and evidence under the new codes.
• Police officers and investigating agencies, for classification of offences, procedure under the BNSS and the Identification Act.
• Judiciary aspirants and competitive examination candidates — Civil Judge, APP, AIBE and university examinations — where the comparative tables are the fastest route to retaining the new section numbering.
• Law students and faculty teaching or reading criminal law, criminal procedure and the law of evidence under the new statutes.

About the author

Dr. K. D. Gaur is one of the most widely read Indian authors on criminal law, whose textbooks and commentaries on the Indian Penal Code and criminal jurisprudence have been standard reading in Indian law schools for decades. His treatment here carries that same emphasis on principle and comparison rather than bare reproduction of the text.

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