warrant of arrest issued under this Code.
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PROCESSES TO COMPEL THE PRODUCTION OF THINGS
CHAPTER VII
PROCESSES TO COMPEL THE PRODUCTION OF THINGS
A.-Summons to produce
91.
Summons to produce document or other thing.
91. Summons to produce document or other thing. (1) Whenever any
Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that the
production of any document or other thing is necessary or desirable
for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other
proceeding under this Code by or before such Court or officer, such
Court may issue a summons, or such officer a written order, to the
person in whose possession or power such document or thing is believed
to be, requiring him to attend and produce it, or to produce it, at
the time and place stated in the summons or order.
(2) Any person required under this section merely to produce a
document or other thing shall be deemed to have complied with the
requisition if he causes such document or thing to be produced instead
of attending personally to produce the same.
(3)
Nothing in this section shall be deemed(a)
Act,
1891
to affect sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence
1872 (1 of 1872), or the Bankers' Books Evidence Act,
(13 of 1891) or
(b)
to apply to a letter, postcard, telegram or other
document or any parcel or thing in the custody of the postal
or telegraph authority.
92.
Procedure as to letters and telegrams.