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BNSS Section 348: Power to summon material witness, or examine person present

Verbatim · BNSS348. Power to summon material witness, or examine person present.—Any Court may, at any stage of any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita, summon any person as a witness, or examine any person in attendance, though not summoned as a witness, or re-call and re-examine any person already examined; and the Court shall summon and examine or re-call and re-examine any such person if his evidence appears to it to be essential to the just decision of the case.

Corresponds (indicatively) to CrPC 311 of the repealed Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC → BNSS table

Cite as: Section 348, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023)