Criminal Procedure Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter V
40. Service of summons
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The summons shall if practicable be served personally on the person summoned by tendering or delivering to him a copy thereof under the seal of the Court.
Every person on whom a summons is so served shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt for the copy.
In the case of a corporation, the summons may be served on the secretary or other like officer of the corporation.
Where the person to be summoned cannot by the exercise of due diligence be found, the summons may be served by leaving a copy thereof for him with some adult member of his family or with his servant residing with him.
Where the person summoned is in the 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 this section, and shall return it to the Court under his signature and duly indorsed by the person on whom it was served as required by subsection (2).
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