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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 113 BNSS: Letter of request from a country or place outside India to a Court or an authority for investigation in India

Corresponding CrPC
Section 166B CrPC

Bare Act text

(1) Upon receipt of a letter of request from a Court or an authority in a country or place outside India competent to issue such letter in that country or place for the examination of any person or production of any document or thing in relation to an offence under investigation in that country or place, the Central Government may, if it thinks fit—

(i) forward the same to the Chief Judicial Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate as he may appoint in this behalf, who shall thereupon summon the person before him and record his statement or cause the document or thing to be produced; or

(ii) send the letter to any police officer for investigation, who shall thereupon investigate into the offence in the same manner, as if the offence had been committed within India.

(2) All the evidence taken or collected under sub-section (1), or authenticated copies thereof or the thing so collected, shall be forwarded by the Magistrate or police officer, as the case may be, to the Central Government for transmission to the Court or the authority issuing the letter of request, in such manner as the Central Government may deem fit.

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

Deals with letters of request received from a court or authority outside India. The Central Government may forward the letter to the Chief Judicial Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate who summons the person and records the statement or has the document produced, or may send it onward by another route the section provides.

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
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