Power to issue commission for examination of witness in prison
Attendance of witnesses confined or detained in prisons, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
1[7. Power to issue commission for examination of witness in prison.-- (1) Where it appears to the Court that the evidence of a person confined or detained in a prison, whether within the State or elsewhere in India, is material in a suit but the attendance of such person cannot be secured under the preceding provisions of this Order, the Court may issue a commission for the examination of that person in the prison in which he is confined or detained.
(2) The provisions of Order XXVI shall, so far may be, apply in relation to the examination on commission of such person in prison as they apply in relation to the examination on commission of any other person.]
1. Ins. by s. 67, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
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