Skip to content
Wednesday, 11 November 2026 Judgments, law jobs and study notes, written by a practising advocate
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter VIII: Reciprocal Arrangements For Assistance In Certain Matters And Procedure For Attachment And Forfeiture Of Property

Section 119 BNSS: Notice of forfeiture of property

Corresponding CrPC
Section 105G CrPC

Bare Act text

(1) If as a result of the inquiry, investigation or survey under section 116, the Court has reason to believe that all or any of such properties are proceeds of crime, it may serve a notice upon such person (hereinafter referred to as the person affected) calling upon him within a period of thirty days specified in the notice to indicate the source of income, earnings or assets, out of which or by means of which he has acquired such property, the evidence on which he relies and other relevant information and particulars, and to show cause why all or any of such properties, as the case may be, should not be declared to be proceeds of crime and forfeited to the Central Government.

(2) Where a notice under sub-section (1) to any person specifies any property as being held on behalf of such person by any other person, a copy of the notice shall also be served upon such other person.

Text as enacted in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023), in force from 1 July 2024. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

Allows the court, if it believes properties are proceeds of crime after an inquiry, investigation or survey under section 116, to serve a notice on the person affected. The notice requires him within thirty days to indicate the source of income or assets used to acquire the property, the evidence relied on, and to show cause why they should not be declared forfeited.

Chapter VIII: Reciprocal Arrangements For Assistance In Certain Matters And Procedure For Attachment And Forfeiture Of Property

  1. 111 Definitions
  2. 112 Letter of request to competent authority for investigation in a country or place outside India
  3. 113 Letter of request from a country or place outside India to a Court or an authority for investigation in India
  4. 114 Assistance in securing transfer of persons
  5. 115 Assistance in relation to orders of attachment or forfeiture of property
  6. 116 Identifying unlawfully acquired property
  7. 117 Seizure or attachment of property
  8. 118 Management of properties seized or forfeited under this Chapter
  9. 119 Notice of forfeiture of property
  10. 120 Forfeiture of property in certain cases
  11. 121 Fine in lieu of forfeiture
  12. 122 Certain transfers to be null and void
  13. 123 Procedure in respect of letter of request
  14. 124 Application of this Chapter