CHAPTER VI PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE · A.–Summons

Section 65: Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

If service cannot by the exercise of due

diligence be effected as provided in section 62, section 63 or section 64, 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.

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

65. Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided.

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