CrPC Section 92: Procedure as to letters and telegrams
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 7: Processes
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
92. Procedure as to letters and telegrams.- (1) If any document, parcel or thing in the custody of a postal or telegraph authority is, in the opinion of the District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court of Session or High Court wanted for the purpose of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code, such Magistrate or Court may require the postal or telegraph authority, as the case may be, to deliver the document, parcel or thing to such person as the Magistrate or Court directs.
(2) If any such document, parcel or thing is, in the opinion of any other Magistrate, whether Executive or Judicial, or of any Commissioner of police or District Superintendent of Police, wanted for any such purpose, he may require the postal or telegraph authority, as the case may be, to cause search to be made for and to detain such document, parcel or thing pending the order of a District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate or Court under sub-section (1).
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Other sections in this chapter
- 91. Summons to produce document or other thing
- 93. When search-warrant may be issued
- 94. Search of place suspected to contain stolen property, forged documents, etc
- 95. Power to declare certain publications forfeited and to issue search-warrants for the same
- 96. Application to High Court to set aside declaration of forfeiture
- 97. Search for persons wrongfully confined
- 98. Power to compel restoration of abducted females
- 99. Direction, etc., of search-warrants
- 100. Persons in charge of closed place to allow search
- 101. Disposal of things found in search beyond jurisdiction
- 102. Power of police officer to seize certain property
- 103. Magistrate may direct search in his presence
- 104. Power to impound document, etc., produced
- 105. Reciprocal arrangements regarding processes