CHAPTER VI PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE · A.—Summons

Section 64: Summons how served

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

(1) Every summons shall be served by a police officer, or subject to such rules as the State Government may make in this behalf, by an officer of the Court issuing it or other public servant:

Provided that the police station or the registrar in the Court shall maintain a register to enter the address, email address, phone number and such other details as the State Government may, by rules, provide.

(2) The summons shall, if practicable, be served personally on the person summoned, by delivering or tendering to him one of the duplicates of the summons:

Provided that summons bearing the image of Court's seal may also be served by electronic communication in such form and in such manner, as the State Government may, by rules, provide.

(3) Every person on whom a summons is so served personally shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt therefor on the back of the other duplicate.

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

64	62. Summons how served.

Questions on this section

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1. Where a summons cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be served under Section 64, 65 or 66 of the BNSS, the serving officer affixes one duplicate to a conspicuous part of the house or homestead in which the person summoned ordinarily resides. Under Section 67, what may the Court then do?

Practise questions on Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita