55A. Health and safety of arrested person. It shall be the duty of the person having the custody of an accused to take reasonable care of the health and safety of the accused. Read CrPC bare act in a systematic and better way. Read CrPC section wise. Download nice, mobileKEEP READING
56. Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police station. A police officer making an arrest without warrant shall, without unnecessary delay and subject to the provisions herein contained as to bail, take or send the person arrested before a Magistrate having jurisdiction in theKEEP READING
57. Person arrested not to be detained more than twenty-four hours. No police officer shall detain in custody a person arrested without warrant for a longer period than under all the circumstances of the case is reasonable, and such period shall not, in the absence of a special order ofKEEP READING
58. Police to report apprehensions. Officers in charge of police stations shall report to the District Magistrate, or, if he so directs, to the Sub-divisional Magistrate, the cases of all persons arrested without warrant, within the limits of their respective stations, whether such persons have been admitted to bail orKEEP READING
59. Discharge of person apprehended. No person who has been arrested by a police officer shall be discharged except on his own bond, or on bail, or under the special order of a Magistrate. Read CrPC bare act in a systematic and better way. Read CrPC section wise. Download nice,KEEP READING
60. Powers, on escape, to pursue and re-take. (1) If a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the person from whose custody he escaped or was rescued may immediately pursue and arrest him in any place in India. (2) The provisions of section 47 shall apply to arrestsKEEP READING
60A. Arrest to be made strictly according to the Code. No arrest shall be made except in accordance with the provisions of this Code or any other law for the time being force providing for arrest. Read CrPC bare act in a systematic and better way. Read CrPC section wise.KEEP READING
61. Form of summons. Every summons issued by a Court under this Code shall be in writing, in duplicate, signed by the presiding officer of such Court or by such other officer as the High Court may, from time to time, by rule direct, and shall bear the seal ofKEEP READING
62. Summons how served. (1) Every summons shall be served by a police officer, or subject to such rules as the State Government may make in this behalf, by an officer of the Court issuing it or other public servant. (2) The summons shall, if practicable, be served personally onKEEP READING
63. Service of summons on corporate bodies and societies. Service of a summons on a corporation may be effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or other principal officer of the corporation, or by letter sent by registered post, addressed to the chief officer of the corporation inKEEP READING
64. Service when persons summoned cannot be found. Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with some adult male member of his family residing with him, and the person with whomKEEP READING
65. Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided. If service cannot by the exercise of due diligence be effected as provided in section 62, section 63 or section 64, the serving officer shall affix one of the duplicates of the summons to some conspicuous part of the houseKEEP READING
66. Service on Government servant. (1) Where the person summoned is in the active service of the Government, the Court issuing the summons shall ordinarily send it in duplicate to the head of the office in which such person is employed; and such head shall thereupon cause the summons toKEEP READING
67. Service of summons outside local limits. When a Court desires that a summons issued by it shall be served at any place outside its local jurisdiction, it shall ordinarily send summons in duplicate to a Magistrate within whose local jurisdiction the person summoned resides, or is, to be thereKEEP READING
68. Proof of service in such cases and when serving officer not present. (1) When a summons issued by a Court is served outside its local jurisdiction, and in any case where the officer who has served a summons is not present at the hearing of the case, an affidavit,KEEP READING
69. Service of summons on witness by post. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding section of this Chapter, a Court issuing a summons to a witness may, in addition to and simultaneously with the issue of such summons, direct a copy of the summons to be served by registeredKEEP READING
