Section 171Complainants and witnesses not to be required to accompany Police-Officer

s. 171

171. Complainants and witnesses not to be required to accompany Police-Officer [(1)] No complainant or witness on his way to the Court of the Magistrate shall be required to accompany a police-officer, [Complainants and witnesses not to be subjected to restraint] or shall be subjected to unnecessary restraint or incon-venience, or required to give any security for his appearance other than his own bond: [Recusant complainant or witness may be forwarded in custody] Provided that, if any complainant or witness refuses to attend or to execute a bond as directed in section 170, the officer in charge of the police-station may forward him in custody to the Magistrate, who may detain him in custody until he executes such bond, or until the hearing of the case is completed. [(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), it shall be the responsibility of the police-officer to ensure that the complainant or the witness appears before the Court at the time of hearing of the case.]

1. 211. Sub-section (2) was added by section 10 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)