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    1) A summons is an authoritative call for an accused person to appear in court to answer to a charge of an offence. It must be in writing, signed by the presiding officer of the court, and bear the court's seal. 2) The summons is ordinarily served by a police officer personally on the accused. If the accused cannot be found, it can be served by leaving it with a family member. For corporations, it can be served on senior officers or via registered post. 3) If the summons is served outside the court's local jurisdiction, it sends the summons to a local magistrate for service, and an affidavit and endorsed duplicate can serve

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    1) A summons is an authoritative call for an accused person to appear in court to answer to a charge of an offence. It must be in writing, signed by the presiding officer of the court, and bear the court's seal. 2) The summons is ordinarily served by a police officer personally on the accused. If the accused cannot be found, it can be served by leaving it with a family member. For corporations, it can be served on senior officers or via registered post. 3) If the summons is served outside the court's local jurisdiction, it sends the summons to a local magistrate for service, and an affidavit and endorsed duplicate can serve

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    1) A summons is an authoritative call for an accused person to appear in court to answer to a charge of an offence. It must be in writing, signed by the presiding officer of the court, and bear the court's seal. 2) The summons is ordinarily served by a police officer personally on the accused. If the accused cannot be found, it can be served by leaving it with a family member. For corporations, it can be served on senior officers or via registered post. 3) If the summons is served outside the court's local jurisdiction, it sends the summons to a local magistrate for service, and an affidavit and endorsed duplicate can serve

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    Summons To An Accused

    Chapter VI - Part A (Ss 61 - 68)


    Meaning & Form
    A summon in case of an accused person is an authoritative call to the accused
    person to appear in court to answer to a charge of an offence.
    Section 61 - Form of Summons
    61. Form of summons.—

    1. Every summons issued by a Court under this Code


    2. shall be in writing,
    3. in duplicate,
    4. signed by the presiding officer of such Court or by such other officer as
    the High Court may, f
    5. shall bear the seal of the Court.
    Form 1 Schedule II - Prescribed Form For Summon
    205. Magistrate may dispense with personal attendance of accused.—

    (1) Whenever a Magistrate issues a summons, he may, if he sees reason so to


    do, dispense with the personal attendance of the accused and permit him to
    appear by his pleader.

    (2) But the Magistrate inquiring into or trying the case may, in his
    discretion, at any stage of the proceedings, direct the personal attendance of
    the accused, and, if necessary, enforce such attendance in the manner
    hereinbefore provided.
    Mode of Service of Summon - Section 62 - 67
    62. Summons how served.—

    (1) Every summons shall be served by a police officer, or

    ● subject to such rules as the State Government may make in this behalf, by
    an officer of the Court issuing it or other public servant.

    (2) The summons shall, if practicable,

    ○ be served personally on the person summoned,


    ○ by delivering or tendering to him one of the duplicates of the
    summons.

    (3) Every person on whom a summons is so served shall, if so required by the


    serving officer, sign a receipt therefor on the back of the other duplicate.
    63. Service of summons on corporate bodies and societies.

    ● Service of a summons on a corporation may be effected by serving it on the


    ○ secretary,
    ○ local manager or
    ○ other principal officer of the corporation, or
    ● by letter sent by registered post, addressed to the chief officer of the
    corporation in India,
    ● in which case the service shall be deemed to have been effected when the
    letter would arrive in ordinary course of post.

    Meaning of Corporation -

    ● An incorporated company or
    ● other body corporate
    ● and includes a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860
    (21 of 1860).
    64. Service when persons summoned cannot be found.—

    ● If After the exercise of due diligence the person summoned cannot be found,
    ● the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with some
    adult male member of his family residing with him, and
    ● the person with whom the summons is so left shall, if so required by the
    serving officer, sign a receipt therefor on the back of the other duplicate.

    A servant is not a member of the family within the meaning of this section.
    2 Parts of Section 65

    Echatu v P Gopalan 1981 CrLJ 691 Ker


    66. Service on Government servant.

    (1) Where the person summoned is in the active service of the Government,

    ● the Court issuing the summons shall ordinarily send it in duplicate to the
    head of the office in which such person is employed; and
    ● such head shall thereupon cause the summons to be served in the manner
    provided by section 62, and
    ● shall return it to the Court under his signature with the endorsement
    required by that section.

    (2) Such signature shall be evidence of due service.


    67. Service of summons outside local limits.—When a Court desires that a
    summons issued by it shall be

    served at any place outside its local jurisdiction, it shall ordinarily send
    such summons in duplicate to a Magistrate

    within whose local jurisdiction the person summoned resides, or is, to be


    there served.
    Proof of Service in Particular Case - In cases when
    Summon is served outside the jurisdiction
    68. Proof of service in such cases and when serving officer not present.—

    (1) When a summons issued by a Court is served outside its local jurisdiction, and
    in any case where the officer who has served a summons is not present at the
    hearing of the case,

    an affidavit, purporting to be made before a Magistrate, that such summons has been
    served, and a duplicate of the summons purporting to be endorsed (in the manner
    provided by section 62 or section 64) by the person to whom it was delivered or
    tendered or with whom it was left,

    shall be admissible in evidence,

    and the statements made therein shall be deemed to be correct unless and until the
    contrary is proved.

    2) The affidavit mentioned in this section may be attached to the duplicate of the
    summons and returned to the Court.

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