Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 66
Service when persons summoned cannot be found
In one line
BNSS Section 66 deals with service when persons summoned cannot be found and replaces CrPC 64.
Bare act text — BNSS 66
66. 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 member of his family residing with him, and the person with whom the summons is so left shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt therefor on the back of the other duplicate. Explanation.—A servant is not a member of the family within the meaning of this section.
What changed from the CrPC
- CrPC 64 → BNSS 66: The word "male" is excluded to make the provision gender neutral.
Frequently asked
What was BNSS Section 66 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 66 (Service when persons summoned cannot be found) replaces Section 64 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 64 is now BNSS 66.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 61 — Power, on escape, to pursue and retake
- BNSS 62 — Arrest to be made strictly according to Sanhita
- BNSS 63 — Form of summons
- BNSS 64 — Summons how served
- BNSS 65 — Service of summons on corporate bodies, firms, and societies
- BNSS 67 — Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided
- BNSS 68 — Service on Government servant
- BNSS 69 — Service of summons outside local limits
- BNSS 70 — Proof of service in such cases and when serving officer not present
- BNSS 71 — Service of summons on witness