Jammu and Kashmir State Ranbir Penal Code or RPC was the main criminal code applicable in the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
[2] It was made on the lines of Indian Penal Code prepared by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
The Parliament of India passed the bill to scrap provisions of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution on 5 August 2019.
The state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has got divided into the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh after the successful passage of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill in the Rajya Sabha[4] and Lok Sabha[5] respectively.
The Indian Penal Code itself was repealed and replaced by Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in the year 2024.