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CHAPTER XIII INFORMATION TO THE POLICE AND THEIR POWERS TO INVESTIGATE

Section 191: Complainant and witnesses not to be required to accompany police officer and not to be subject to restraint

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

No complainant or witness on his way to any Court shall be required to accompany a police officer, or shall be subjected to unnecessary restraint or inconvenience, or required to give any security for his appearance other than his own bond:

Provided that if any complainant or witness refuses to attend or to execute a bond as directed in section 190, the officer in charge of the police station may forward him in custody to the Magistrate, who may detain him in custody until he executes such bond, or until the hearing of the case is completed.

Corresponding CrPC provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

Questions on this section

1 question in 6 of our papers cite Section 191.

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