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FILE G · GLOSSARY · Magisterial & law-and-order

Bind Over

MEANING

Making a person execute a bond to keep the peace — the executive magistrate's preventive workhorse.

Security proceedings under BNSS 126–143 (the old 107–110 CrPC): show-cause order, summary enquiry within six months, then a bond with or without sureties — or discharge.