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BNSS Section 73: Power to direct security to be taken

Section 73 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with power to direct security to be taken. It replaces CrPC 71 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 73

73. (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.

Warrants to whom directed.

CrPC sections replaced

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