CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023
92. Procedure as to letters and telegrams
95. Procedure as to letters
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CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
92. Procedure as to letters and telegrams.—(1) If any document, parcel or thing in the custody of a
postal or telegraph authority is, in the opinion of the District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court
of Session or High Court wanted for the purpose of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding
under this Code, such Magistrate or Court may require the postal or telegraph authority, as the case may
be, to deliver the document, parcel or thing to such person as the Magistrate or Court directs.
(2) If any such document, parcel or thing is, in the opinion of any other Magistrate, whether
Executive or Judicial, or of any Commissioner of Police or District Superintendent of Police, wanted for
any such purpose, he may require the postal or telegraph authority, as the case may be, to cause search to
be made for and to detain such document, parcel or thing pending the order of a District Magistrate, Chief
Judicial Magistrate or Court under sub-section (1).
B.—Search-warrants
Legacy / repealed by BNSS India Code — CrPC 1973
BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023
95. Procedure as to letters.—(1) If any document, parcel or thing in the custody of a postal authority
is, in the opinion of the District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court of Session or High Court
wanted for the purpose of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita, such
Magistrate or Court may require the postal authority to deliver the document, parcel or thing to such person
as the Magistrate or Court directs.
(2) If any such document, parcel or thing is, in the opinion of any other Magistrate, whether Executive
or Judicial, or of any Commissioner of Police or District Superintendent of Police, wanted for any such
purpose, he may require the postal authority to cause search to be made for and to detain such document,
parcel or thing pending the order of a District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate or Court under
sub-section (1).
B.—Search-warrants
Current law India Code — BNSS 2023