CHAPTER VI PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE · A.—Summons
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with some adult member of his family residing with him, and the person with whom the summons is so left shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt therefor on the back of the other duplicate.
Explanation.—A servant is not a member of the family within the meaning of this section.
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
2 questions in 10 of our papers cite Section 66. Try these from the free papers:
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?