CrPC 121BNSS 140

What changed

• "bond" is replaced by "bail bond".

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Under Section 140 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 121 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 140

140. Power to reject sureties .— (1) A Magistrate may refuse to accept any surety of fered, or may reject any surety previously accepted by him or his predecessor under this Chapter on the ground that such surety is an unfit person for the purposes of the bail bond: Provided that before so refusing to accept or rejecting any such surety, h e shall either himself hold an inquiry on oath into the fitness of the surety, or cause such inquiry to be held and a report to be made thereon by a Magistrate subordinate to him. (2) Such Magistrate shall, before holding the inquiry, give reasonable notic e to the surety and to the person by whom the surety was offered and shall, in making the inquiry, record the substance of the evidence adduced before him. (3) If the Magistrate is satisfied, after considering the evidence so adduced either before him or before a Magistrate deputed under sub-section (1), and the report of such Magistrate (if any), that the surety is an unfit person for the purposes of the bail bond, he shall make an order refusing to accept or rejecting, as the case may be, such surety and recording his reasons for so doing: Provided that before making an order rejecting any surety who has previously been accepted, the Magistrate shall issue his summons or warrant, as he thinks fit, and cause the person for whom the surety is bound to appear or to be brought before him.