CrPC Section 97: Search for persons wrongfully confined
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 7: Processes - comple the production of things
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
¶ 97. Search for persons wrongfully confined.- If any District Magistrate, Sub-divisional Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class has reason to believe that any person is confined under such circumstances that the confinement amounts to an offence, he may issue, a search-warrant, and the person to whom such warrant is directed may search for the person so confined; and such search shall be made in accordance therewith, and the person, if found, shall be immediately taken before a Magistrate, who shall make such order as in the circumstances of the case seems proper.
Study: explanations and related material
Now BNSS 100 (corresponding section). CrPC → BNSS converterSource: BPR&D BNSS–CrPC corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-07-03), p6
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Other sections in this chapter
- 91. Summons to produce document or other thing
- 92. Procedure as to letters and telegrams
- 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
- 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