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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 71

Power to Direct Security to Be Taken

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About this section

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 71 is part of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - Power to Direct Security to Be Taken. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section 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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What does Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 71 provide?

Section Section 71 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Power to Direct Security to Be Taken) is reproduced on this page as part of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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