BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Section 66 — Service when persons summoned cannot be found.

Replaces CrPC Section 64.

Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with some adult 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. Explanation.—A servant is not a member of the family within the meaning of this section.

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