Criminal Procedure Code · Updated to 1 May 2023 · Chapter VII · Security for Keeping the Peace and
67. Security for keeping the peace in other cases
Feedback & supportWhenever it appears to a Magistrate that any person residing or being within the local limits of his jurisdiction is likely to commit a breach of the peace or to do any wrongful act that may probably occasion a breach of the peace within or beyond such limits, the
Magistrate may, in the manner hereinafter provided require that person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond with or without sureties for keeping the peace for such period not exceeding six months as the Magistrate thinks fit to fix.