Letter of request to competent authority for investigation in a country or place outside India.
112. (1) If, in the course of an investigation into an offence, an application is made by
the investigating officer or any officer superior in rank to the investigating officer that
evidence may be available in a country or place outside India, any Criminal Court may issue
a letter of request to a Court or an authority in that country or place competent to deal with
such request to examine orally any person supposed to be acquainted with the facts and
circumstances of the case and to record his statement made in the course of such examination
and also to require such person or any other person to produce any document or thing
which may be in his possession pertaining to the case and to forward all the evidence so
taken or collected or the authenticated copies thereof or the thing so collected to the Court
issuing such letter.
(2) The letter of request shall be transmitted in such manner as the Central Government
may specify in this behalf.
(3) Every statement recorded or document or thing received under sub-section (1)
shall be deemed to be the evidence collected during the course of investigation under this
Sanhita.
Read also : Section 246 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS