Section 94 of THE BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023 – BNSS

CHAPTER VII
PROCESSES TO COMPEL THE PRODUCTION OF THINGS
A.—Summons to produce

Summons to produce document or other thing.

94. (1) Whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that
the production of any document, electronic communication, including communication
devices, which is likely to contain digital evidence or other thing is necessary or desirable
for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita

by or before such Court or officer, such Court may issue a summons or such officer may, by
a written order, either in physical form or in electronic form, require the person in whose
possession or power such document or thing is believed to be, to attend and produce it, or
to produce it, at the time and place stated in the summons or order.
(2) Any person required under this section merely to produce a document, or other
thing shall be deemed to have complied with the requisition if he causes such document or
thing to be produced instead of attending personally to produce the same.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed—
(a) to affect sections 129 and 130 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 or
the Bankers’ Books Evidence Act, 1891; or
(b) to apply to a letter, postcard, or other document or any parcel or thing in the
custody of the postal authority.

Read also : Section 69 in THE BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA, 2023 – BNS