CrPC Section 373: Appeal from orders requiring security or refusal to accept or rejecting surety for keeping peace or good behaviour
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 29: Appeals
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
¶ 373. Appeal from orders requiring security or refusal to accept or rejecting surety for keeping peace or good behaviour.- Any person,
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(i) who has been ordered under section 117 to give security for keeping the peace or for good behaviour, or
¶(ii) who is aggrieved by any order refusing to accept or rejecting a surety under section 121, may appeal against such order to the Court of Session:
¶Provided that nothing in this section, shall apply to persons the proceedings against whom are laid before a Sessions Judge in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2) or sub-section (4) of section 122.
Study: explanations and related material
Now BNSS 414 (corresponding section). CrPC → BNSS converterSource: BPR&D BNSS–CrPC corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-07-03), p21
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Other sections in this chapter
- 372. No appeal to lie unless otherwise provided
- 374. Appeals from convictions
- 375. No appeal in certain cases when accused pleads guilty
- 376. No appeal in petty cases
- 377. Appeal by the State Government against sentence
- 378. Appeal in case of acquittal
- 379. Appeal against conviction by High Court in certain cases
- 380. Special right of appeal in certain cases
- 381. Appeal to Court of Session how heard
- 382. Petition of appeal
- 383. Procedure when appellant in jail
- 384. Summary dismissal of appeal
- 385. Procedure for hearing appeals not dismissed summarily
- 386. Powers of the Appellate Court
- 387. Judgments of subordinate Appellate Court
- 388. Order of High Court on appeal to be certified to lower Court
- 389. Suspension of sentence pending the appeal; release of appellant on bail
- 390. Arrest of accused in appeal from acquittal
- 391. Appellate Court may take further evidence or direct it to be taken
- 392. Procedure where Judges of Court of appeal are equally divided
- 393. Finality of judgments and orders on appeal
- 394. Abatement of appeals