CrPC Section 109: Security for good behaviour from suspected persons

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 8: Security for keeping the peace and for good behavior

Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).

109. Security for good behaviour from suspected persons.- When an Executive Magistrate receive information that there is within hi s local jurisdiction a person taking precautions to conceal hi s presence and that there is reason to believe that he is doing so with a view to committing a cognizable offence, the Magistrate may, in the manner hereinafter provided, require such person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond, with or without sureties, for hi s good behaviour for such period, not exceeding one year, as the Magistrate thinks fit.

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