Argue bail, framing, and appeal on authority you can defend in court
Criminal practice runs on the section, the precedent, and the clock. Niyam reads the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 — alongside the IPC, CrPC, and Evidence Act they replaced — and answers in plain English, every point cited to the provision or judgment it came from.
- Map an old IPC/CrPC section to its BNS/BNSS, 2023 equivalent in seconds
- Pull bail, quashing, and sentencing authority cited to the judgment
- Good-law signals so an overruled precedent never reaches your bail application
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Trusted by advocates and in-house teams across India
Grounded in India's criminal-law sources
The shift
From hunting for the right section to arguing with it in hand
With three new codes in force, criminal work now turns on finding the correct provision and the precedent that survives the transition. Niyam compresses that search without cutting the citation.
The old way
- Cross-referencing IPC sections to the BNS, 2023 by hand under deadline
- Keyword search that misses the bail order phrased differently
- Copying citations and fearing one's been overruled or distinguished
- A general chatbot that confidently invents a Supreme Court bail case
With Niyam for Criminal Law
- Ask in plain English; get the controlling section and judgment in seconds
- Old-code-to-new-code mapping between the IPC/CrPC and the BNS/BNSS, 2023
- Every proposition cited to the provision or judgment, good-law checked
- Grounded only in real Indian criminal-law sources, never fabricated
Why Niyam for Criminal Law
Speed at the remand stage, authority at the appeal
Criminal defence is decided on bail at midnight and on precedent at the final hearing. Niyam gives you both — the answer fast, and the answer traceable to a primary source you can put before the judge.
Old code to new code, instantly
Move between a familiar IPC or CrPC section and its counterpart in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 or Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — so notes drafted under the old codes still work under the new ones.
IPC/CrPC ↔ BNS/BNSS, 2023 cross-references
Bail authority, cited
Surface the precedents on bail, anticipatory bail, and default bail that actually govern your fact pattern, each linked to the judgment so you cite the holding, not a headnote.
Bail precedent across Supreme Court & High Courts
Quashing and framing of charge
Find the authority on quashing proceedings and on framing or discharge, grounded in the statute and the case law that construes it, ready to lift into an application.
Quashing & discharge precedent on point
Never cite overruled law
Before you build a bail or appeal argument on a precedent, Niyam shows whether later courts followed, distinguished, or overruled it — so you argue from good law.
Good-law signals on every cited case
Sentencing and mitigation
Pull the sentencing factors and comparable judgments that bear on quantum, so mitigation is argued from authority rather than instinct.
Sentencing precedent grounded in the codes
Evidence and admissibility
Trace questions of admissibility, confessions, and electronic evidence to the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 and the judgments interpreting it.
Evidence law under the BSA, 2023
Plain-English answers
Ask the bail question you actually have
Type the question the way you'd put it to a senior — 'is anticipatory bail available where the offence is triable by the Sessions Court?' Niyam reads the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and the governing judgments and answers in plain English, the controlling authority shown alongside.
- Understands the legal issue, not just the keywords
- Answers grounded in the section and judgments that govern it
- Citations sit beside the answer, one click from the source
Old code to new code
Carry your IPC knowledge into the BNS, 2023
Every familiar section has a place in the new codes. Niyam maps an IPC or CrPC provision to its equivalent in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 or Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 — and back — so the transition doesn't cost you the precedent you already know.
- IPC → BNS, 2023 and CrPC → BNSS, 2023 provision mapping
- Carry old-code judgments forward to the new provision
- Read the new section text beside the precedent that construes it
Good-law signals
Know a bail precedent is safe before you cite it
Niyam surfaces how later courts have treated a judgment — followed, distinguished, referred, or overruled — so an overruled citation never reaches your bail application or appeal. When the law has moved on, it points you to the authority that now governs.
- Treatment history across Supreme Court and High Courts
- Clear good-law / caution / overruled signals at a glance
- Jump from the signal to the judgment that set it
Whole-corpus search
Search 72,000+ judgments and the criminal codes
Behind every answer is the full corpus — the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, and the judgments construing them — indexed so the case on point surfaces even when it's phrased differently from your query.
- Bail, quashing, framing, sentencing, and evidence authority
- Finds the judgment on point even when the wording differs
- Filter by court and read the binding authority first
How it works
From a fact pattern to cited authority in three steps
Niyam compresses the research loop without ever cutting the citation.
Ask in plain English
Describe the offence, stage, and issue the way you'd brief a colleague. Niyam reads the BNS, BNSS, and BSA, 2023 — and the codes they replaced — to understand exactly what governs.
Get a cited answer
Every answer comes grounded in primary sources — sections and judgments — with citations you can open and verify, plus old-code-to-new-code mapping where it helps.
Verify and act
Read the source, confirm it's still good law, then draft the bail application or grounds of appeal from it — without leaving Niyam.
- Indian judgments indexed
- 72,000+
- BNS, BNSS & BSA, 2023
- 3 new codes
- Cited to primary sources
- Every answer
- Signals on cited precedent
- Good-law
Built for trust
In criminal work, an invented case can cost a client their liberty
A confident answer you can't defend is worse than no answer at a bail hearing. Niyam for Criminal Law is engineered so every point traces back to a real provision or judgment you can open in court.
72,000+
Supreme Court & High Court judgments indexed
100%
of answers cited to primary sources
Good-law
treatment signals on cited precedent
Private
your matters are never sold or used to train public models
Niyam retrieves from real Indian criminal-law sources rather than guessing, so it doesn't invent cases — and every answer links back to the section of the BNS, BNSS, or BSA, 2023, or the judgment it relied on. Your matters and queries stay private to your account, never sold and never used to train public models. The authority you take into a remand or appeal actually exists, and the source is always one click away.
How it compares
Why criminal practitioners research with Niyam, not a generic chatbot
A general AI can sound confident and still invent a bail case. Manual research is reliable but slow when a remand hearing is hours away. Niyam gives you both speed and authority.
| Capability | Niyam | Generic AI chatbot | Manual research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grounded in the new codes | BNS, BNSS & BSA, 2023 | Generic / outdated | Yes, but slow |
| Old-code to new-code mapping | IPC/CrPC ↔ BNS/BNSS, 2023 | Unreliable | Manual lookup |
| Every answer cited | Yes, to primary sources | Often uncited | Manual |
| Checks if a case is good law | Yes | No | Manual |
| Risk of invented cases | None — retrieval-grounded | High | None |
| Speed before a remand hearing | Seconds | Seconds (unreliable) | Hours |
FAQ
Questions, answered straight
Where Niyam helps — and where your professional judgment stays in charge.
Yes. Niyam is grounded in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, alongside the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Indian Evidence Act they replaced. You can move between an old-code section and its new-code equivalent, and carry forward the judgments that interpret it.
Yes. Ask for the equivalent of a familiar IPC or CrPC provision and Niyam points you to the corresponding section in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 or Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, with the section text beside the precedent that construes it, so the transition doesn't cost you what you already know.
Yes. Niyam surfaces a judgment's treatment history — whether later courts have followed, distinguished, referred to, or overruled it — so you can see at a glance whether a bail or appeal authority is safe to cite. When a judgment has been overruled, it points you to the authority that now governs.
Yes. Describe the offence, the stage, and the issue in plain English and Niyam finds the authority by the legal question, not just the keywords — so it surfaces the bail or quashing case on point even when it is phrased differently from how you searched. You then open the judgment and confirm it.
No. Niyam provides legal information and research grounded in primary sources. It does not create an advocate–client relationship and does not replace advice from a qualified advocate. You remain responsible for verifying every citation, confirming the current code position, and exercising professional judgment.
Judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts, plus the criminal codes — the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, and their predecessors. Coverage keeps expanding; the corpus already runs to more than 72,000 judgments alongside the statute book.
Yes. Your queries and saved research stay private to your account. Niyam is built for the confidentiality criminal defence demands — your work product is never sold and never used to train public models.
Research criminal law on the codes in force — cited and good-law checked.
Create your Niyam account in under a minute — ₹100 to start, 200 credits to try everything. Ask your first bail or framing question and see the authority behind every answer.
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