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

²¹⁰[(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.

²¹¹[(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.]

²¹⁰ Section 171 was renumbered as sub-section (1) of that section by section 10 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. XXIV of 1982)

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