CrPC Section 92 — Procedure as to letters and telegrams

CHAPTER VII PROCESSES TO COMPEL THE PRODUCTION OF THINGS

General

Summary

Sub-section (1) allows a District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court of Session or High Court to require a postal or telegraph authority to deliver a document, parcel or thing in its custody to a person the Magistrate or Court directs, if it considers the item needed for an investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under the Code.

Sub-section (2) allows any other Executive or Judicial Magistrate, Commissioner of Police or District Superintendent of Police to require the postal or telegraph authority to search for and detain such an item if it is considered needed for one of those purposes. The item is detained pending an order under sub-section (1) by a District Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate or Court.

Official Text

(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

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