Bare ActsCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC)

Section 442

Discharge from custody

The CrPC 1973 was replaced by the BNSS 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 442 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 531, BNSS 2023).

(1) As soon as the bond has been executed, the person for whose appearance it has been executed shall be released; and when he is in jail the Court admitting him to bail shall issue an order of release to the officer in charge of the jail, and such officer on receipt of the orders shall release him. (2) Nothing in this section, Section 436 or Section 437 shall be deemed to require the release of any person liable to be detained for some matter other than that in respect of which the bond was executed.

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