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Section 64 - Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
64.Service when persons summoned cannot be found.-
Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with some adult male member of his family residing with him, and the person with whom the summons is so left shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt therefor on the back of the other duplicate.
Explanation.-A servant is not a member of the family within the meaning of this section.
Related Sections
- Section 483: Duty of High Court to exercise continuous superintendence over Courts of Judicial Magistrates
- Section 223: What persons may be charged jointly
- Section 25: Assistant Public Prosecutors
- Section 69: Service of summons on witness by post
- Section 282: Interpreter to be bound to interpret truthfully
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