First Schedule · Order 16 · Rule 15
Duty of persons summoned to give evidence or produce document
15. Duty of persons summoned to give evidence or produce document. —Subject as last aforesaid, whoever is summoned to appear and give evidence in a suit shall attend at the time and place named in the summons for that purpose, and whoever is summoned to produce a document shall either attend to produce it, or cause it to be produced, at such time and place.
Understand civil procedure
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