Section-66 BNSS – Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 & equivalent Cr.P.C. Section

Section-66 of Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023: Service when persons summoned cannot be found – with corresponding and equivalent Sections of Cr.P.C.-Criminal Procedure Code.

Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (corresponding section)
66. 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.
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 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.

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