Criminal Procedure Code · Updated to 1 May 2023 · Chapter XLIV · Miscellaneous
427. Payment of expenses of prosecutors and witnesses
Feedback & supportIn every criminal case tried before the High Court, and in every criminal case tried before a Sessions Court or a Magistrate’s Court, the
Court
“Court” means the High Court, a Sessions Court, or a Magistrate’s Court of any class, as the context may require;
Court may in its discretion order payment out of the Consolidated Fund to the prosecutor and to the witnesses both for the prosecution and for the defence, or to such of them as it thinks fit, of the expenses incurred by them severally in and about attending the High Court, or the
Sessions Court or Magistrate’s Court and also compensation for their trouble and loss of time, subject to such rules as are prescribed.
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