section 73
Power to direct security to be taken.
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023Criminal2023531 sections39 chapters
B.—Warrant of arrest
Statutory 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 bail 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—
- (a) the number of sureties;
- (b) the amount in which they and the person for whose arrest the warrant is issued, are to be respectively bound;
- (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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