ACT NO. V OF 1898Year 189822nd March, 1898

The Code of Criminal Procedure,(CrPC)

47Chapters
594Sections
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V
Chapter V

OF ARREST, ESCAPE AND RETAKING

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✪46
Arrest how made
✪62
Resisting endeavour to arrest
✪63
Procedure of arrest and duties of officer making arrest
✪46B
Entry of arrest in official register, general diary and providing information relating to arrest
✪46C
Designated Police-Officer for maintaining and displaying information of arrest
✪46D
Health and safety of arrested person
✪46E
Examination of arrested person by medical officer
✪47
Search of place entered by person sought to be arrested
✪48
Procedure where ingress not obtainable
✪70
Breaking open zanana
✪49
Power to break open doors and windows for purposes of liberation
✪50
No unnecessary restraint
✪51
Search of arrested persons
✪52
Mode of searching women
✪53
Power to seize offensive weapons
✪76
When police may arrest without warrant
✪77
Person arrested to be informed of reason of arrest
✪55
Arrest of vagabonds, habitual robbers, etc.
✪56
Procedure when police-officer deputes subordinate to arrest without warrant
✪57
Refusal to give name and residence
✪58
Pursuit of offenders into other jurisdictions
✪59
Arrest by private persons and procedure on such arrest
✪60
Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police-station
✪61
Person arrested not to be detained more than twenty-four hours
✪62
Police to report apprehensions.
✪63
Discharge of person apprehended
✪64
Offence committed in Magistrate's presence
✪65
Arrest by or in presence of Magistrate.
✪66
Power, on escape, to pursue and retake
✪67
Provisions of sections 47, 48 and 49 to apply to arrest under section 66
✪91
Procedure in case of non-compliance with provisions relating to arrest
VI
Chapter VI

OF PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE

33
✪68
Form of summons
✪93
Summons by whom served
✪69
Summons how served
✪95
Signature of receipt for summons
✪70
Service when person summoned cannot be found
✪71
Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided
✪72
Service on servant of Republic
✪73
Service of summons outside local limits
✪74
Proof of service in such cases and when serving officer not present
✪75
Form of warrant of arrest Continuance of warrant of arrest
✪102
Recognizance to be forwarded
✪76
Court may direct security to be taken
✪77
Warrants to whom directed
✪105
Warrants to several persons
✪78
Warrant may be directed to landholders, etc.
✪79
Warrant directed to police-officer
✪80
Notification of substance of warrant
✪81
Person arrested to be brought before Court without delay
✪82
Where warrant may be executed
✪83
Warrant forwarded for execution outside jurisdiction
✪84
Warrant directed to police-officer for execution outside jurisdiction
✪85
Procedure on arrest of person against whom warrant issued
✪86
Procedure by Magistrate before whom person arrested is brought.
✪87
Proclamation for person absconding
✪88
Attachment of property of person absconding
✪89
Restoration of attached property
✪90
Issue of warrant in lieu of, or in addition to, summons
✪91
Power to take bond for appearance
✪92
Arrest by breach of bond for appearance
✪93
Provisions of this Chapter generally applicable to summonses and warrants of arrest
✪93A
Sending of summons for service outside Bangladesh
✪93B
Sending of warrants for execution outside Bangladesh
✪93C
Service and execution in Bangladesh of processes received from outside Bangladesh
XI
Chapter XI

TEMPORARY ORDERS IN URGENT CASES OF NUISANCE OR APPREHENDED DANGER.

1
XIV
Chapter XIV

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✪154
Information in cognizable cases
✪155
Information in non-cognizable cases
✪203
Investigation into non-cognizable cases
✪156
Investigation into cognizable cases
✪157
Procedure where cognizable offence suspected
✪206
Where local investigation dispensed with
✪207
Where police-officer in charge sees no sufficient ground for investigation
✪158
Reports under section 157 how submitted
✪159
Power to hold investigation or preliminary inquiry
✪160
Police-officer's power to require attendance of witnesses
✪161
Examination of witnesses by police
✪162
Statements to police not to be signed; use of such statements in evidence
✪163
No inducement to be offered
✪164
Power to record statements and confessions
✪165
Search by police-officer
✪166
When officer-in-charge of police station may require another to issue search-warrant
✪167
Procedure when investigation cannot be completed in twenty-four hours
✪218
Duties of Magistrates in relation to shown arrest and detention
✪168
Report of investigation by subordinate police-officer
✪169
Release of accused when evidence deficient
✪170
Case to be sent to Magistrate when evidence is sufficient
✪171
Complainants and witnesses not to be required to accompany Police-Officer
✪223
Complainants and witnesses not to be subjected to restraint
✪224
Recusant complainant or witness may be forwarded in custody
✪172
Diary of proceedings in investigation
✪173
Report of police-officer
✪227
Interim investigation report, etc
✪228
Provisions for completion of investigation
✪174
Police to inquire and report on suicide, etc.
✪175
Power to summon persons
✪176
Inquiry by Magistrate into cause of death
✪232
Power to disinter corpses
XV
Chapter XV

OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS IN INQUIRIES AND TRIALS

35
✪177
Ordinary place of inquiry and trial
✪178
Power to order cases to be tried in different sessions divisions
✪179
Accused triable in district where act is done or where consequence ensues
✪180
Place of trial where act is offence by reason of relation to other offence
✪181
Being a thug or belonging to a gang of dacoits, escape from custody, etc.
✪238
Criminal misappropriation and criminal breach of trust
✪239
Theft
✪240
Kidnapping and abduction
✪182
Place of inquiry or trial where scene of offence is uncertain or not in one district only or where offence is continuing or consists of several acts
✪183
Offence committed on a journey
✪184
Repealed
✪185
High Court Division to decide, in case of doubt, district where inquiry or trial shall take place
✪186
Power to issue summons or warrant for offence committed beyond local jurisdiction
✪246
Magistrate's procedure on arrest
✪187
Procedure where warrant issued by subordinate Magistrate
✪188
Liability for offences committed outside Bangladesh
✪249
Political Agents to certify fitness of inquiry into charge
✪189
Power to direct copies of depositions and exhibits to be received in evidence
✪190
Cognizance of offences by Magistrates
✪191
Transfer 241[***] on application of accused
✪192
Transfer of cases by Magistrates
✪193
Cognizance offences by Courts of Session
✪194
Omitted
✪195
Prosecution for contempt of lawful authority of public servants
✪257
Prosecution for certain offences against public justice
✪258
Prosecution for certain offences relating to documents given in evidence
✪196
Prosecution for offences against the State
✪260
Prosecution for certain classes of criminal conspiracy
✪261
Preliminary inquiry in certain cases
✪197
Prosecution of Judges and public servants
✪263
Power of Government as to prosecution
✪198
Prosecution for breach of contract, defamation and offences against marriage
✪199
Prosecution for adultery or enticing a married woman
✪266
Objection by lawful guardian to compliant by person other than person aggrieved
✪267
Form of authorization under second proviso to section 198 or 199
XVIII
Chapter XVIII

OF INQUIRY INTO CASES TRIABLE BY THE COURT OF SESSION OR HIGH COURT DIVISION

1
XXI
Chapter XXI

OF THE TRIAL OF WARRANT-CASES BY MAGISTRATES

1
XXIX
Chapter XXIX

OF SUSPENSIONS, REMISSIONS AND COMMUTATIONS OF SENTENCES

3
XXX
Chapter XXX

OF PREVIOUS ACQUITTALS OR CONVICTIONS

1
XXXI
Chapter XXXI

OF APPEALS

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✪404
Unless otherwise provided, no appeal to lie
✪405
Appeal from order rejecting application for restoration of attached property
✪406
Appeal from order requiring security for keeping the peace or for good behaviour
✪423
Appeal from order refusing to accept or rejecting a surety
✪424
Appeal from sentence of Magistrate of the second or third class
✪425
Appeal from sentence of Joint Sessions Judge and Magistrates of the first class
✪409
Appeals to Court of Session how heard
✪410
Appeal from sentence of Court of Session
✪411
Omitted
✪411A
Omitted
✪412
No appeal in certain cases when accused pleads guilty
✪413
No appeal in petty cases
✪414
No appeal from certain summary convictions
✪415
Proviso to sections 413 and 414
✪434
Special right of appeal in certain cases
✪416
Repealed
✪436
Appeal in case of acquittal
✪417A
Appeal against inadequacy of sentence
✪418
Appeals on what matters admissible
✪419
Petition of appeal
✪420
Procedure when appellant in jail
✪421
Summary dismissal of appeal
✪422
Notice of appeal
✪423
Powers of Appellate Court in disposing of appeal
✪424
Judgments of subordinate Appellate Courts
✪425
Order by High Court Division on appeal to be certified to lower Court
✪426
Suspension of sentence pending appeal Release of appellant on bail
✪427
Arrest of accused in appeal from acquittal
✪428
Appellate Court may take further evidence or direct it to be taken
✪429
Procedure where Judges of Court of Appeal are equally divided
✪430
Finality of orders on appeal
✪431
Abatement of appeals
XXXIII
488Chapter XXXIIA

TIME FOR DISPOSAL OF APPEAL AND REVISION

1
XXXIV
Chapter XXXIII

1
XXXVII
Chapter XXXVI

OF THE MAINTENANCE OF WIVES AND CHILDREN.

1
XXXVIII
Chapter XXXVII

DIRECTIONS OF THE NATURE OF A Habeas Corpus

2
XLVII
Chapter XLVI

MISCELLANEOUS

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✪539
Courts and persons before whom affidavits may be sworn
✪561
Affidavit in proof of conduct of public servant
✪539B
Local inspection
✪540
Power to summon material witness or examine person present
✪540A
Provision for inquiries and trial being held in the absence of accused in certain cases
✪541
Power to appoint place of imprisonment
✪566
Removal to criminal jail of accused or convicted persons who are in confinement in civil jail, and their return to the civil jail
✪542
Repealed
✪543
Interpreter to be bound to interpret truthfully
✪544
576[Expenses and protection of complainants, witnesses and victims]
✪545
Power of Court to pay expenses or compensation out of fine
✪546
Payments to be taken into account in subsequent suit
✪572
Order of payment of certain fees paid by complainant in non-cognizable cases
✪547
Moneys ordered to be paid recoverable as fines
✪548
Copies of proceedings
✪575
Apprehension of such persons
✪549
Delivery to military authorities of persons liable to the tried by Court-martial
✪550
Powers to police to seize property suspected to be stolen
✪551
Power of superior officers of police
✪552
Power to compel restoration of abducted females
✪553
Repealed
✪554
Power of chartered High Court Division to make rules for inspection of records of subordinate Courts
✪582
Power of other High Court Division to make rules for other purposes
✪555
Forms
✪556
Case in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested
✪557
Practicing pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts
✪558
Power to decide language of Courts
✪559
Provision for powers of Judges and Magistrates being exercised by their successors in office
✪560
Officers concerned in sales not to purchase or bid for property
✪589
Saving of inherent power of High Court Division
✪561
Special provisions with respect to offence of rape by a husband
✪562
Repealed
✪563
Repealed
✪564
Repealed
✪565
Order for notifying address of previously convicted offender