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CHAPTER VI PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE · A.–Summons

Section 67: Service of summons outside local limits

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.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 a Court desires that a summons issued by it shall be served at any place outside its local jurisdiction, it shall ordinarily send such summons in duplicate to a Magistrate

within whose local jurisdiction the person summoned resides, or is, to be there served.

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

67. Service of summons outside local limits.BNSS 69

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