7A. Summons given to party for service. (1) The Court may, on the application of any party for the issue of a summons for the attendance of any person, permit such party to effect service of such summons on such person and shall, in such a case, deliver the summonsRead…
8. Summons how served. Every summons under this Order, not being a summons delivered to a party for service under rule 7A, shall be served as nearly as may be in the same manner as a summons to a defendant and the rules in Order V as to proof ofRead…
9. Time for serving summons. Service shall in all cases be made a sufficient time before the time specified in the summons for the attendance of the person summoned, to allow him a reasonable time for preparation and for travelling to the place at which his attendance is required. ReadRead…
10. Procedure whose witness fails to comply with summons. (1) Where a person to whom a summons has been issued either to attend to give evidence or to produce a document, fails to attend or to produce the document in compliance with such summons, the Court- (a) shall, if theRead…
11. If witness appears attachment may be withdrawn. Where at any time after the attachment of his property, such person appears and satisfies the Court- (a) that he did not, without lawful excuse, fail to comply with the summons or intentionally avoid service, and (b) where he has failed toRead…
12. Procedure if witness fails to appear. (1) The Court may, where such person does not appear, or appears but fails so to satisfy the Court, impose upon him such fine not exceeding five hundred rupees as it thinks fit, having regard to his condition in life and all the circumstancesRead…
13. Mode of attachment. The provisions with regard to the attachment and sale of property in the execution of a decree shall, so far as they are applicable, be deemed to apply to any attachment and sale under this Order as if the person whose property is so attached were aRead…
14. Court may of its own accord summon as witnesses strangers to suit. Subject to the provisions of this Code as to attendance and appearance and to any law for the time being in force, where the Court at any time thinks it necessary to examine any person, including aRead…
15. Duty of persons summoned give evidence or produce document. Subject as last aforesaid, whoever is summoned to appear and give evidence in a suit shall attend at the time an place named in the summons for that purpose, and whoever is summoned to produce a document shall either attendRead…
16. When they may depart. (1) A person so summoned and attending shall, unless the Court otherwise directs, attend at each hearing until the suit has been disposed of. (2) On the application of either party and the payment through the Court of all necessary expenses (if any), the CourtRead…
17. Application of rules 10 to 13. The provisions of rules 10 to 13 shall, so far as they are applicable, be deemed to apply to any person who having attended in compliance with a summons departs, without lawful excuse, in contravention of rule 16. Read CPC in a betterRead…
18. Procedure where witness apprehended cannot give evidence or produce document. Where any person arrested under a warrant is brought before the Court in custody and cannot, owing to the absence of the parties or any of them, give the evidence or produce the document which he has been summonedRead…
19. No witness to be ordered to attend in person unless resident within certain limits. No one shall be ordered to attend in person to give evidence unless he resides- (a) within the local limits of the Court’s ordinary original jurisdiction, or (b) without such limits but at a placeRead…
20. Consequence of refusal of party to give evidence when called on by Court. Where any party to a suit present in Court refuses, without lawful excuse, when required by the Court, to give evidence or to produce any document then and there in his possession or power, the CourtRead…
21. Rules as to witnesses to apply to parties summoned. Where any party to a suit is required to give evidence or to produce a document, the provisions as to witnesses shall apply to him so for as they are applicable. Read CPC in a better and systematic way. DownloadRead…
ORDER XVIA – ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES CONFINED OR DETAINED IN PRISONS 1. Definitions. In this Order- (a) “detained” includes detained under any law providing for preventive detention; (b) “prison” includes- (i) any place which has been declared by the State Government, by general or special order, to be a subsidiaryRead…
