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CHAPTER VI PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE · A.—Summons

Section 67: Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

If service cannot by the exercise of due diligence be effected as provided in section 64, section 65 or section 66, the serving officer shall affix one of the duplicates of the summons to some conspicuous part of the house or homestead in which the person summoned ordinarily resides; and thereupon the Court, after making such inquiries as it thinks fit, may either declare that the summons has been duly served or order fresh service in such manner as it considers proper.

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

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  1. 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?

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