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@article{205760,
        author = {Moksha Rathore},
        title = {The "Zero FIR" & Jurisdictional Efficiency: The Statutory Evolution of Zero FIR under BNSS: Empowerment of the Common Citizen or Administrative Quagmire},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {8457-8468},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=205760},
        abstract = {the Paradigmatic Transition: From the Colonial Bedrock of IPC and Cr.P.C to the Indigenized Horizons of BNS and BNSS. The legislative landscape of Indian criminal jurisprudence has recently undergone a monumental, epoch-making metamorphosis. For well over a century, the substantive and procedural matrices of the nation’s penal system were governed by the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860, and the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.P.C), 1973 (which itself inherited deep-seated colonial structures from its 1898 predecessor). These statutory frameworks, though resilient, were deeply inextricably intertwined with an anachronistic, 2. Victorian-era ethos designed primarily by the British Raj to subjugate a colonized populace rather than to deliver egalitarian justice. The introduction of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) represents a radical, paradigm-shifting departure from this retributive legacy, signaling a conscious transition toward a victim-centric, technologically integrated, and thoroughly decolonized system of justice delivery.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {June},
        }