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Section 240 - The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
240. Recall of Witnesses when charge altered.
Whenever a charge is altered or added to by the Court after the commencement of the trial, the prosecutor and the accused shall be allowed-
(a) to recall or re-summon, and examine with reference to such alteration or addition, any witness who may have been examined, unless the Court, for reasons to be recorded in writing, considers that the prosecutor or the accused, as the case may be, desires to recall or re-examine such witness for the purpose of vexation or delay or for defeating the ends of justice;
(b) also to call any further witness whom the Court may think to be material.
Related Sections
- Section 125: Security for keeping peace on conviction
- Section 428: Judgments of subordinate Appellate Court
- Section 429: Order of High Court on appeal to be certified to lower Court
- Section 345: Trial of person not complying with conditions of pardon
- Section 389: Summary procedure for punishment for nonattendance by a witness in obedience to summons
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