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BNSS Section 91

Definition

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 Section 91 (successor to CrPC 1973 Section 91) lets a court or officer in charge of a police station issue a written order requiring production of any document or thing for investigation. The standard Indian instrument for compelling a domestic intermediary to produce data.

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