CHAPTER VI PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE · D.—Other rules regarding processes

Section 90: Issue of warrant in lieu of, or in addition to, summons

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

A Court may, in any case in which it is empowered by this Sanhita to issue a summons for the appearance of any person, issue, after recording its reasons in writing, a warrant for his arrest—

(a) if, either before the issue of such summons, or after the issue of the same but before the time fixed for his appearance, the Court sees reason to believe that he has absconded or will not obey the summons; or

(b) if at such time he fails to appear and the summons is proved to have been duly served in time to admit of his appearing in accordance therewith and no reasonable excuse is offered for such failure.

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

90	87. Issue of warrant in lieu of, or in addition to, summons.

Questions on this section

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1. In Inder Mohan Goswami v. State of Uttaranchal (2007), the Supreme Court laid down that, for securing the presence of an accused,

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