Under section 13(4) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, if an offence under sections 210, 213,…

Section 13(4) treats the Commission as a civil court for this purpose: after recording the facts constituting the offence and the statement of the accused, it may forward the case "to a Magistrate having jurisdiction to try the same". The Commission cannot itself try or punish the offender. The section still names IPC sections 175, 178, 179, 180 and 228, which now correspond to sections 210, 213, 214, 215 and 267 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.