BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 370 — Resumption of inquiry or trial.
Replaces CrPC Section 331.
(1) Whenever an inquiry or a trial is postponed under section 367 or section 368, the Magistrate or Court, as the case may be, may at any time after the person concerned has ceased to be of unsound mind, resume the inquiry or trial and require the accused to appear or be brought before such Magistrate or Court. (2) When the accused has been released under section 369, and the sureties for his appearance produce him to the officer whom the Magistrate or Court appoints in this behalf, the certificate of such officer that the accused is capable of making his defence shall be receivable in evidence.
Nearby sections
- 367 Procedure in case of accused being person of unsound mind.
- 368 Procedure in case of person of unsound mind tried before Court.
- 369 Release of person of unsound mind pending investigation or trial.
- 371 Procedure on accused appearing before Magistrate or Court.
- 372 When accused appears to have been of sound mind.
- 373 Judgment of acquittal on ground of unsoundness of mind.
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