CrPC § 122 — Power to reject sureties

Statutory text (English)

(1) A Magistrate may refuse to accept any surety offered, or may
reject any surety previously accepted by him or his predecessor under this Chapter on the ground that such
surety is an unfit person for the purposes of the bond:

Provided that, before so refusing to accept or rejecting any such surety, he shall either himself hold an
inquiry on oath into the fitness of the surety, or cause such inquiry to be held and a report to be made
thereon by a Magistrate subordinate to him.

(2) Such Magistrate shall, before holding inquiry, give reasonable notice to the surety and to the person
by whom the surety was offered and shall in making the inquiry record the substance of the evidence
adduced before him.

(3) If the Magistrate is satisfied, after considering the evidence so adduced either before him or before a
Magistrate deputed under sub-section

(1), and the report of such Magistrate (if any) that the surety is an
unfit person for the purposes of the bond, he shall make an order refusing to accept or rejecting, as the case
may be, such surety and recording his reasons for so doing:

Provided that, before making an order rejecting any surety who has previously been accepted, the
Magistrate shall issue his summons or warrant, as he thinks fit, and cause the person for whom the surety is
bound to appear or to be brought before him.]

Source and verification

Source citation: CrPC (Act V of 1898) s.122: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE' (Act No. V of 1898, last amended 2017-02-16), p. 63, 64, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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