Date for prosecution evidence
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Summary
When the accused refuses or fails to enter a plea, or claims trial instead of pleading guilty, the judge will set a date for examining the prosecution's witnesses. On the prosecution's application the judge may issue process to compel any witness to attend or to produce any document or other thing.
Example
Ravi is charged with theft; at the plea stage he refuses to plead and says he wants a trial. The judge fixes a date to examine the prosecution's witnesses, and on the prosecution's request issues a summons to a shopkeeper witness and orders the bank to produce CCTV footage.
Bare Act
Enacted textIf the accused refuses to plead, or does not plead, or claims to be tried or is not convicted under section 229, the Judge shall fix a date for the examination of witnesses, and may, on the application of the prosecution, issue any process for compelling the attendance of any witness or the production of any document or other thing.
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