Power to direct security to be taken
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Summary
When a court issues a warrant it may order on the warrant that the person can be released if they execute a bond with sufficient sureties to attend court at a specified time and until further order. The endorsement must state the number of sureties, the amounts they and the accused are bound for, and the attendance time. The officer who takes the security must forward the bond to the court.
Example
Ravi has a warrant because he missed a court date in a trivial dispute. The court endorses the warrant allowing release if he gives a bond with two sureties of Rs 5,000 each to attend on the specified date. The officer takes the bond, releases Ravi from custody and forwards the bond to the court.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Any Court issuing a warrant for the arrest of any person may in its discretion direct by endorsement on the warrant that, if such person executes a bond with sufficient sureties for his attendance before the Court at a specified time and thereafter until otherwise directed by the Court the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall take such security and shall release such person from custody.
(2) The endorsement shall state-
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(a) the number of sureties;
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(b) the amount in which they and the person for whose arrest the warrant is issued, are to be respectively bound;
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(c) the time at which he is to attend before the Court.
(3) Whenever security is taken under this section, the officer to whom the warrant is directed shall forward the bond to the Court.
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