The current edition gives amended and up-to-date text of Indian Penal Code, 1860. The work includes all the changes made by the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018 (Act 22 of 2018). The book also provides the Lord Macaulay’s report in 1837 to Governor-General in Council alongwith the text of all the repealed and substituted sections, this enables the reader to understand the historical perspective of that section.

List of Amending Acts and Adaptation Orders since 1948 is also added in the edition.