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BNSS Section 66: Service when persons summoned cannot be found

Section 66 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with service when persons summoned cannot be found. It replaces CrPC 64 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 66

66. 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 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.

Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided.

CrPC sections replaced

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