CrPC: Chapter 22: Attendance of persons confined of Detained in prisons

Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).

1. Section 266. Definitions
2. Section 267. Power to require attendance of prisoners
3. Section 268. Power of State Government to exclude certain persons from operation of section 267
4. Section 269. Officer in charge of prison to abstain from carrying out order in certain contingencies
5. Section 270. Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody
6. Section 271. Power to issue commission for examination of witness in prison

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