Jammu and Kashmir State Ranbir Penal Code or RPC was the main criminal code applicable in the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. The

Indian Penal Code The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is the official criminal code of India. It is a comprehensive code intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law. The code was drafted on the recommendations of first law commission of India established i ...

, applicable elsewhere in India, was not applicable here under

Article 370 of the Constitution of India Article 370 of the Indian constitution gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, a region located in the northern part of Indian subcontinent and part of the larger region of Kashmir which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pak ...

. It came into force in 1932. The code was introduced during the reign of Maharaja Ranbir Singh and hence named after him. It was made on the lines of

prepared by

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. The Parliament of India passed the bill to scrap provisions of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution on 5 August 2019. The constitution of

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which was applicable to the rest of India except Jammu and Kashmir, has now become applicable all over India. The state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has got divided into the Union Territories of J&K and

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after the successful passage of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill in the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, wikisource:Constitution of India/Part V#Article 80, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legisl ...

and

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-pas ...

respectively. The Ranbir Penal Code has thus been dissolved. Henceforth, the

has come into force in the region.

References

{{reflist Criminal codes State legislation in India Jammu and Kashmir Legislature 1932 in law 1932 in India Crime in Jammu and Kashmir