CrPC Section 171: Complainant and witnesses not to be required to accompany police officer and not to be subject to restraint
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 12: Information
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
171. Complainant and witnesses not to be required to accompany police officer and not to be subject to restraint.- No complainant or witness on his way to any Court shall be required to accompany a police officer, or shall be subject to unnecessary restraint or inconvenience, or required to give any security for his appearance other than his own bond:
Provided that, if any complainant or witness refuses to attend or to execute a bond as directed in section 170, the officer in charge of the police station may forward him in custody to the Magistrate, who may detain him in custody until he executes such bond, or until the hearing of the case is completed.
Bare act text for reference, current to 30 June 2024. It is not legal advice; check the official gazette for authoritative text.
Other sections in this chapter
- 154. Information in cognizable cases
- 155. Information as to non-cognizable cases and investigation of such cases
- 156. Police officer's power to investigate cognizable cases
- 157. Procedure for investigation
- 158. Report how submitted
- 159. Power to hold investigation or preliminary inquiry
- 160. Police Officer's power to require attendance of witnesses
- 161. Examination of witnesses by police
- 162. Statements to police not to be signed: Use of statements in evidence
- 163. No inducement to be offered
- 164. Recording of confessions and statements
- 164A. Medical examination of the victim of rape
- 165. Search by police officer
- 166. When officer in charge of police station may require another to issue search-warrant
- 166A. Letter of request to competent authority for investigation in a country or place outside India
- 166B. Letter of request from a country or place outside India to a Court or an authority for investigation in India
- 167. Procedure when investigation cannot be completed in twenty-four hours
- 168. Report of investigation by subordinate police officer
- 169. Release of accused when evidence deficient
- 170. Cases to be sent to Magistrate when evidence is sufficient
- 172. Diary of proceeding in investigation
- 173. Report of police officer on completion of investigation
- 174. Police to inquire and report on suicide, etc
- 175. Power to summon persons
- 176. Inquiry by Magistrate into cause of death