Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody
Attendance of witnesses confined or detained in prisons, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
1[6. Prisoner to be brought to Court in custody.-- In any other case, the officer in charge, of the prison shall, upon delivery of the Court's order, cause the person named therein to be taken to the Court so as to be present at the time mentioned in such order, and shall cause him to be kept in custody in or near the Court until he has been examined or until the Court authorises him to be taken back to the prison in which he is confined or detained.]
1. Ins. by s. 67, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
How this Rule is cited
It is written both ways, and both mean this Rule: Order XVI-A Rule 6 CPC and Order 16 Rule 6 CPC. Pleadings usually take the arabic form, judgments usually the numeral.
Orders of the courts under it: Order 16 Rule 6 CPC, Order XVI-A Rule 6 CPC. Each opens the full-text search over every order eCourtsIndia holds.
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