Provisions for legal aid to accused are provided under which of the following sections of the Bharatiya…

Section 341 BNSS (formerly section 304 CrPC) requires the Court to assign an advocate for the defence at State expense where, in a trial or appeal before a Court, the accused is unrepresented and lacks sufficient means to engage one; the former provision expressly referred only to trials before the Court of Session. Broader legal-aid entitlements also arise under constitutional and legal-services law. Section 337 deals with double jeopardy, section 343 with tender of pardon and section 359 with compounding.