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CHAPTER XXXIII PROVISIONS AS TO BAIL AND BONDS

Section 445: Deposit instead of recognizance

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

When any person is required by any Court or officer to execute a bond with or without sureties, such Court or officer may, except in the case of a bond for good behaviour, permit him to deposit a sum of money or Government promissory notes to such amount as the Court or officer may fix in lieu of executing such bond.

State Amendment (as printed in the official text)

West Bengal

In section 445 of the principal Act,—

(a) the words “with or without sureties” shall be omitted; and

(b) for the word “permit”, the word “direct” shall be substituted.

[Vide West Bengal Act 24 of 2003, s. 4.]

Now in the BNSS

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

445. Deposit instead of recognizance.BNSS 490

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