Section 91 of CRPC. "Summons to produce document or
other thing"
(1) Whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police
station considers that the production of any document or
other thing is necessary or desirable for the purposes of
any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under
this Code by or before such Court or officer, such Court may
issue a summons, or such officer a written order, to the
person in whose possession or power such document or thing
is believed to be, requiring him to attend and produce it,
or to produce it, at the time and place stated in the
summons or order.
(2) Any person required under this section merely to
produce a document or other thing shall be deemed to have
complied with the requisition if he causes such document or
thing to be produced instead of attending personally to
produce the same.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed-
(a) to affect sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence
Act, 1872,(1 of 1872) or the Bankers' Books Evidence Act,
1891,(13 of 1891) or
(b) to apply to a letter, postcard, telegram, or other
document or any parcel or thing in the custody of the postal
or telegraph authority.
Section 92 of CRPC. "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).
COMPEL PRODUCTION OF THINGS
Section 93 of Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - When Search Warrant is to be issued?