SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 21 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 5 of 100

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What technological advancement is explicitly incorporated in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for faster justice delivery?

(a)Use of blockchain in contracts
(b)Electronic recording of witness testimony
(c)Live broadcast of trials
(d)Use of drones for crime scene inspection

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Section 530 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita lets all trials, inquiries and proceedings be held in electronic mode. It names the examination of complainant and witnesses and the recording of evidence among them.

Section 180 also lets police record a witness's statement by audio-video electronic means → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Use of blockchain in contracts — Contracts are civil law. The BNSS is a code of criminal procedure, and blockchain appears nowhere in its text.
(c)
Live broadcast of trials — The BNSS allows proceedings by audio-video electronic means, which is a video link, not a live broadcast of trials to the public. No such provision is in the Sanhita.
(d)
Use of drones for crime scene inspection — The BNSS sends forensic experts to crime scenes and requires videography of the process on a mobile phone or other electronic device. It does not mention drones.

Concept

The BNSS, 2023 replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. It came into force on 1 July 2024, together with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam.

Technology runs through it. Information about a cognizable offence can be given by electronic communication, searches and seizures must be recorded on audio-video, and trials may run in electronic mode.

The deciding word in the stem is explicitly. The other three options sound modern, but only electronic recording of witness evidence is written into the Sanhita's text.

Key facts

Section 530 of the BNSS allows trials, inquiries and proceedings to be held in electronic mode.
Section 105 requires searches and seizures to be recorded by audio-video electronic means, preferably a mobile phone.
Section 173 lets information about a cognizable offence be given by electronic communication, to be signed within three days.
Section 176(3) sends a forensic expert to the crime scene for offences punishable with seven years or more, from a date each state notifies.

Study next

Zero FIR and e-FIR under Section 173 of the BNSSDetention limits and default bail under the BNSSElectronic records as evidence under the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam

Common traps

Picking drones because the BNSS stresses forensics: the Act asks for forensic experts and phone videography, not drones.
Reading 'electronic mode' as live broadcasting: a hearing by video link is not a public stream.

Here a feature of the new criminal laws is asked by what the text explicitly says.

The same Sanhita is asked at 12 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.18, which keys video-recorded confessions, and its companion evidence law at 12 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.17, which keys digital and electronic evidence.

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