(1) A police officer proceeding under section 194 may, by order in writing, summon
two or more persons as aforesaid for the purpose of the said investigation, and any other
person who appears to be acquainted with the facts of the case and every person so
summoned shall be bound to attend and to answer truly all questions other than questions
the answers to which would have a tendency to expose him to a criminal charge or to a
penalty or forfeiture:
Provided that no male person under the age of fifteen years or above the age of sixty
years or a woman or a mentally or physically disabled person or a person with acute illness
shall be required to attend at any place other than the place where such person resides,
unless such person is willing to attend and answer at the police station or at any other place
within the limits of such police station.
(2) If the facts do not disclose a cognizable offence to which section 190 applies, such
persons shall not be required by the police officer to attend a Magistrate’s Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(1) A police officer proceeding under section 194 may, by order in writing, summontwo or more persons as aforesaid for the purpose of the said investigation, and any otherperson who appears to be acquainted with the facts of the case and every person sosummoned shall be bound to attend and to answer truly all questions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[125,124,134,132,130,136,137,126,127,123,129,128,133,111,135,112,121,122,113,114,131],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-bnss","tag-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-2023","tag-bhartiya-nagrik-suraksha-sanhita","tag-bnss-2024-india","tag-bnss-all-sections","tag-bnss-bare-act","tag-bnss-chapter-wise-sections","tag-bnss-fir-section","tag-bnss-full-form","tag-bnss-pdf-download","tag-bnss-sections-in-hindi","tag-bnss-sections-list","tag-bnss-vs-crpc","tag-crpc-replaced-by-bnss","tag-expert-vakil","tag-expert-vakil-bnss","tag-expertvakil","tag-indian-kanoon","tag-indiankanoon","tag-ishan-tathagat","tag-ishantathagat","tag-new-criminal-law-india"],"yoast_head":"\n