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Section 36

Procedure when personal service cannot be effected

of Criminal Procedure Code

ActIn forceProvision 38 of 459
Section 36

When the person to be summoned cannot by the exercise of due diligence be found and service cannot be effected as directed by subsection 35(4) the serving officer shall affix a copy of the summons to some conspicuous part of the house or other place in which the person summoned ordinarily resides, and in such case the summons, if the Court so directs either before or after such affixing, shall be deemed to have been duly served.