Section 10 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 applies, so far as may be, the criminal procedure…
The provisions listed in s.10 include those on fresh security where a surety becomes insolvent or dies or a bond is forfeited, and on bonds required from minors (formerly…
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Section 10 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 applies, so far as may be, the criminal procedure provisions on sureties to bonds and sureties given under the Act. In the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the procedure where a surety becomes insolvent or dies (or a bond is forfeited), and the bond that may be accepted where the person required to execute a bond is a child, are contained respectively in:
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The provisions listed in s.10 include those on fresh security where a surety becomes insolvent or dies or a bond is forfeited, and on bonds required from minors (formerly ss.514A and 514B of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898). Read under s.8 of the General Clauses Act, 1897, these now correspond to s.493 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (the Court may order fresh security in accordance with the original order) and s.494 (where the person required to execute a bond is a child, a bond executed by a surety or sureties only may be accepted). Sections 399 and 400 deal with compensation for groundless arrest and costs in non-cognizable cases, ss.478 and 479 with bail in bailable cases and the maximum detention of undertrial prisoners, and ss.100 and 101 with search for persons wrongfully confined and restoration of abducted women and female children.