CrPC Section 372: No appeal to lie unless otherwise provided
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 29: Appeals
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
372. No appeal to lie unless otherwise provided.- No appeal shall lie from any judgment or order of a Criminal Court except as provided for by this Code or by any other law for the time being in force.
*[Provided that the victim shall have a right to prefer an appeal against any order passed by the Court acquitting the accused or convicting for a lesser offence or imposing inadequate compensation, and such appeal shall lie to the Court to which an appeal ordinarily lies against the order of conviction of such Court.]
*[Proviso added by Code of Criminal Procedure Amendment Act, 2008]
Bare act text for reference, current to 30 June 2024. It is not legal advice; check the official gazette for authoritative text.
Other sections in this chapter
- 373. Appeal from orders requiring security or refusal to accept or rejecting surety for keeping peace or good behaviour
- 374. Appeals from convictions
- 375. No appeal in certain cases when accused pleads guilty
- 376. No appeal in petty cases
- 377. Appeal by the State Government against sentence
- 378. Appeal in case of acquittal
- 379. Appeal against conviction by High Court in certain cases
- 380. Special right of appeal in certain cases
- 381. Appeal to Court of Session how heard
- 382. Petition of appeal
- 383. Procedure when appellant in jail
- 384. Summary dismissal of appeal
- 385. Procedure for hearing appeals not dismissed summarily
- 386. Powers of the Appellate Court
- 387. Judgments of subordinate Appellate Court
- 388. Order of High Court on appeal to be certified to lower Court
- 389. Suspension of sentence pending the appeal; release of appellant on bail
- 390. Arrest of accused in appeal from acquittal
- 391. Appellate Court may take further evidence or direct it to be taken
- 392. Procedure where Judges of Court of appeal are equally divided
- 393. Finality of judgments and orders on appeal
- 394. Abatement of appeals