CrPC Section 270: Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · 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Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
270. Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody.- Subject to the provisions of section 269, the officer in charge of the prison shall, upon delivery of an order made under sub-section (1) of section 267 and duly countersigned, where necessary, under sub¬section (2) thereof, cause the person named in the order to be taken to the Court in which his attendance is required, so as to be present there at the time mentioned in the order, and shall cause him to be kept in custody in or near the Court until he has been examined or until the Court authorises him to be taken back to the prison in which he was confined or detained.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 266. Definitions
- 267. Power to require attendance of prisoners
- 268. Power of State Government to exclude certain persons from operation of section 267
- 269. Officer in charge of prison to abstain from carrying out order in certain contingencies
- 271. Power to issue commission for examination of witness in prison