{"id":20695,"date":"2024-02-21T03:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T21:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20695"},"modified":"2025-04-06T03:03:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T21:33:41","slug":"crpc-section-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/crpc-section-91\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Section 91 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Section 91 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Section 91 of the CrPC\u00a0empowers the court to issue a summons or a written order\u00a0to produce a document or other material that is necessary for the purpose of any investigation, inquiry, trial,\u00a0or other legal proceedings.<\/li>\n<li>Under this section, if the court considers that the production of any document or material is necessary or desirable for the administration of justice, it\u00a0can issue a summons or written order to any person in possession of that document or material, directing them to produce it in court.<\/li>\n<li>Purpose: To\u00a0ensure the availability of relevant evidence and materials during legal proceedings. This helps\u00a0facilitate a fair and just resolution of the case by ensuring that the necessary evidence is presented before the court.<\/li>\n<li>Production of documents under Section 91:\u00a0The document or material can be produced\u00a0either in its original form or in the form of certified copies,\u00a0as specified in the summons or written order.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Compliance with the Section 91 order: The\u00a0person receiving the summons must comply with it and produce the document or thing as required.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Section 91\u00a0does not cover the production of the following items:\n<ul>\n<li>Those listed under Sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), or\u00a0the Bankers Books Evidence Act, 1891 (13 of 1891), or<\/li>\n<li>a\u00a0letter, postcard, telegram, or other document, or any parcel or thing\u00a0in the custody of the postal or telegraph authority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0court must be informed of the\u00a0name of the person in whose possession or power\u00a0the document is, or else the application for summons will not be entertained.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0term \u2018person\u2019 mentioned in the Section\u00a0does not include an accused person in trial.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0police officers and courts are required to\u00a0adhere to specific protocols and precautions while issuing and carrying out summonses under Section 91 CrPC.\n<ul>\n<li>For instance, they must abide by Sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, (1872), which\u00a0protects the confidentiality and privilege of specific documents.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, they\u00a0must offer the person called a fair amount of time and a chance to comply with the request.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)?<\/h3>\n<p>Enacted in 1973 (came into force on 1 April 1974), CrPC is the main legislation on procedure for administration of substantive criminal law in India.It provides a procedure for the investigation of crime, the collection of evidence, and the determination of guilt or innocence. The CrPC also covers the arrest and detention of suspects, the conduct of trials, and the sentencing of convicted individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/supreme-court\/accused-cannot-invoke-s91-crpc-to-compel-prosecution-to-produce-things-at-the-stage-of-framing-of-charge-supreme-court-250024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Accused Cannot Invoke S.91 CrPC To Compel Prosecution To Produce Things At The Stage Of Framing Of Charge: Supreme Court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section 91 of the CrPC empowers the court to issue a summons or a written order to produce a document l that is necessary for the purpose of any investigation, inquiry, trial, or other legal proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}