Section
193(3)(ii) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 quietly performs one
of the most citizen-friendly reforms in India's new criminal justice framework
— it gives every victim and informant a legal right to be told, within 90 days,
what the police have actually done about their case.
For decades, filing an FIR under Section 154 of the old Code of
Criminal Procedure was the easy part. What followed was often silence —
sometimes for years — until a final report finally surfaced under Section
173(2) CrPC. The complainant had no enforceable right to interim information.
That era of "administrative silence" has now been legislatively
dismantled.
