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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter XXXV: Provisions As To Bail And Bonds

Section 492 BNSS: Cancellation of bond and bail bond

Corresponding CrPC
Section 446A CrPC

Bare Act text

Without prejudice to the provisions of section 491, where a bond or bail bond under this Sanhita is for appearance of a person in a case and it is forfeited for breach of a condition,—

(a) the bond executed by such person as well as the bond, if any, executed by one or more of his sureties in that case shall stand cancelled; and

(b) thereafter no such person shall be released only on his own bond in that case, if the police officer or the Court, as the case may be, for appearance before whom the bond was executed, is satisfied that there was no sufficient cause for the failure of the person bound by the bond to comply with its condition:

Provided that subject to any other provisions of this Sanhita he may be released in that case upon the execution of a fresh personal bond for such sum of money and bond by one or more of such sureties as the police officer or the Court, as the case may be, thinks sufficient.

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

Where a bond or bail bond for a person's appearance in a case is forfeited for breach of a condition, the bonds of that person and any of his sureties in that case stand cancelled. If the officer or Court is satisfied there was no sufficient cause for the breach, the person may not afterwards be released only on his own bond in that case. A proviso allows release on a fresh bond with sureties.

Chapter XXXV: Provisions As To Bail And Bonds

  1. 478 In what cases bail to be taken
  2. 479 Maximum period for which under-trial prisoner can be detained
  3. 480 When bail may be taken in case of non-bailable offence
  4. 481 Bail to require accused to appear before next Appellate Court
  5. 482 Direction for grant of bail to person apprehending arrest
  6. 483 Special powers of High Court or Court of Session regarding bail
  7. 484 Amount of bond and reduction thereof
  8. 485 Bond of accused and sureties
  9. 486 Declaration by sureties
  10. 487 Discharge from custody
  11. 488 Power to order sufficient bail when that first taken is insufficient
  12. 489 Discharge of sureties
  13. 490 Deposit instead of recognizance
  14. 491 Procedure when bond has been forfeited
  15. 492 Cancellation of bond and bail bond
  16. 493 Procedure in case of insolvency or death of surety or when a bond is forfeited
  17. 494 Bond required from child
  18. 495 Appeal from orders under section 491
  19. 496 Power to direct levy of amount due on certain recognizances
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