CrPC 71 — Power to direct security to be taken

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) Any Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person may

in its discretion direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person executes a bond with sufficient sureties
for  his  attendance  before  the  Court  at  a  specified  time  and  thereafter  until  otherwise  directed  by  the Court,  the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security and shall release such person from custody.
(2) The endorsement shall state—
(a) the number of sureties;
(b) the  amount in  which they  and the  person  for  whose  arrest the  warrant is issued, are  to be  respectively
bound;
(c) the time at which he is to attend before the Court.
(3) Whenever security is taken under this section, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall forward the bond to the Court.

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