Bond required from minor

When the person who must execute a bond is a minor, the Court or the officer may accept a bond executed by a surety or sureties instead. It applies whenever a minor would otherwise have to sign a bond, so someone else can stand security for the minor.

Priya is 16 and the magistrate asks for a bond before allowing conditional release. Because Priya is a minor, the magistrate accepts a bond executed by her father as surety instead of Priya signing it herself.