Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter XX: Trial Of Warrant-cases By Magistrates

Section 267 BNSS: Evidence for prosecution

Corresponding CrPC: Section 244 CrPC

Bare Act text

(1) When, in any warrant-case instituted otherwise than on a police report, the accused appears or is brought before a Magistrate, the Magistrate shall proceed to hear the prosecution and take all such evidence as may be produced in support of the prosecution.

(2) The Magistrate may, on the application of the prosecution, issue a summons to any of its witnesses directing him to attend or to produce any document or other thing.

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

Requires the Magistrate, in a warrant-case instituted otherwise than on a police report, to hear the prosecution and take all evidence produced in its support when the accused appears or is brought. On the prosecution's application he may summon its witnesses.