94. 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, including any electronic communication or communication device which is likely to contain digital evidence, is necessary or desirable for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Sanhita by or before such Court or officer, such Court may issue a summons, or such officer may issue 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—
- to affect sections 129 and 130 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, or the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1891; or
- to apply to a letter, postcard, telegram or other document or any parcel or thing in the custody of the postal or telegraph authority.