(1) Whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that the production of any document or other thing is necessary or desirable for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code by or before such Court or officer, such Court may issue a summons, or such officer 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--
(a) to affect sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), or the Bankers Books Evidence Act, 1891 (13 of 1891), or
(b) to apply to a letter, postcard, telegram or other document or any parcel or thing in the custody of the postal or telegraph authority.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
91 CrPC Summons to produce document or other thing
92 CrPC Procedure as to letters and telegrams
93 CrPC When search-warrant may be issued
94 CrPC Search of place suspected to contain stolen property, forged documents, etc
95 CrPC Power to declare certain publications forfeited and to issue search-warrants for the same
96 CrPC Application to High Court to set aside declaration of forfeiture
97 CrPC Search for persons wrongfully confined
98 CrPC Power to compel restoration of abducted females