Discharge from custody
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Summary
When a bond or bail bond is executed, the person must be released immediately. If the person is in jail, the court that admits bail issues a release order to the jail officer, who must free them on receipt. This does not force release if the person is lawfully detained for some other matter.
Example
Priya is in jail and her lawyer executes a court‑approved bail bond for her. Once the bond is executed, the court sends a release order to the jail officer and Priya is freed. If she is also being held on a separate warrant or charge, she will not be released under this bond.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) As soon as the bond or bail bond has been executed, the person for whose appearance it has been executed shall be released; and, when he is in jail, the court admitting him to bail shall issue an order of release to the officer in charge of the jail, and such officer on receipt of the orders shall release him.
(2) Nothing in this section, section 478 or section 480, shall be deemed to require the release of any person liable to be detained for some matter other than that in respect of which the bond or bail bond was executed.
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