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BNSS Section 348: Power to summon material witness, or examine person present

Section 348 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with power to summon material witness, or examine person present. It replaces CrPC 311 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 348

348. Any Court may, at any stage of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita, summon any person as a witness, or examine any person in attendance, though not summoned as a witness, or re-call and re-examine any person already examined; and the Court shall summon and examine or re-call and re-examine any such person if his evidence appears to it to be essential to the just decision of the case.

Power of Magistrate to order person to give specimen signatures or handwriting, etc.

CrPC sections replaced

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