Service of Summons outside local limits
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Summary
If a court wants a summons served outside its local jurisdiction, it will normally send two copies of the summons to a Magistrate in the area where the person to be summoned resides or is to be served. That Magistrate is then expected to effect service within their jurisdiction.
Example
Priya lives in Lucknow but a court in Kanpur wants her to appear. The Kanpur court sends two copies of the summons to the Magistrate in Lucknow. The Lucknow Magistrate then serves the summons to Priya locally.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhen 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.
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