A woman aged 30 years and her son aged 14 years are witnesses to a murder. Neither of them is willing…

Section 180 of the BNSS (formerly section 161 CrPC) lets the police examine witnesses, but the proviso to section 179(1) (formerly section 160(1) CrPC) provides that no male person under fifteen or above sixty years of age, no woman, no mentally or physically disabled person and no person with acute illness shall be required to attend at any place other than the place where they reside; a further proviso permits such a person to attend at the police station if willing. Since the witnesses are a woman and a boy of fourteen who are unwilling to go to the police station, their statements may be recorded at "The place where such woman and her son reside".

They cannot be required to come to the scene of the occurrence, a woman police station or the police station where the FIR was registered.