The Letter reports a hybrid (i.e. organic-inorganic) perovskite CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 and inorganic only perovskite BiFeO 3 based heterojunction diode for near-infrared detection applications. The hybrid halide CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 is synthesized by using sol-gel chemical route while the BiFeO 3 is synthesized by using a solid-state route. A layer of uniformly distributed BiFeO 3 thin film is first grown on an indium doped tin oxide (ITO) coated glass substrate using BiFeO 3 nanoparticles with an average size of ~65 nm. Then, CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 nanoparticles of average size ~45 nm with a tetragonal phase are deposited BiFeO 3 film for fabricating the heterojunction device under study. The photoresponse is measured by using a monochromatic light over the wavelengths from 400 to 900 nm. The device shows a dual-band photoresponsivity originated from the individual absorption characteristics of BiFeO 3 and CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 perovskites used for the heterojunction. The proposed photodetector shows the maximum responsivity of ~2 A/W at 800 nm for 2 V bias while the detectivity is estimated as <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\sim {7.8}\times {10}^{{12}} </tex-math></inline-formula> cmHz 1/2 /W. The photodetector has a reasonably good photoresponse with a rise time and fall time of 0.74 s and 0.088 s, respectively.