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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter VIII: Reciprocal Arrangements For Assistance In Certain Matters And Procedure For Attachment And Forfeiture Of Property

Section 123 BNSS: Procedure in respect of letter of request

Corresponding CrPC
Section 105K CrPC

Bare Act text

Every letter of request, summons or warrant, received by the Central Government from, and every letter of request, summons or warrant, to be transmitted to a contracting State under this Chapter shall be transmitted to a contracting State or, as the case may be, sent to the concerned Court in India in such form and in such manner as the Central Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf.

Text as enacted in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023), in force from 1 July 2024. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

Provides that letters of request, summonses and warrants received from or sent to a contracting State under the Chapter are transmitted in the form and manner the Central Government specifies by notification.

Chapter VIII: Reciprocal Arrangements For Assistance In Certain Matters And Procedure For Attachment And Forfeiture Of Property

  1. 111 Definitions
  2. 112 Letter of request to competent authority for investigation in a country or place outside India
  3. 113 Letter of request from a country or place outside India to a Court or an authority for investigation in India
  4. 114 Assistance in securing transfer of persons
  5. 115 Assistance in relation to orders of attachment or forfeiture of property
  6. 116 Identifying unlawfully acquired property
  7. 117 Seizure or attachment of property
  8. 118 Management of properties seized or forfeited under this Chapter
  9. 119 Notice of forfeiture of property
  10. 120 Forfeiture of property in certain cases
  11. 121 Fine in lieu of forfeiture
  12. 122 Certain transfers to be null and void
  13. 123 Procedure in respect of letter of request
  14. 124 Application of this Chapter