Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter IX: Security for Keeping the Peace and for Good Behaviour
Section 134: Power to dispense with personal attendance
In plain words
For sufficient cause, the Magistrate can excuse a person asked to show cause from attending personally and let them appear through an advocate.
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Official text
The Magistrate may, if he sees sufficient cause, dispense with the personal attendance of any person called upon to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond for keeping the peace or for good behaviour and may permit him to appear by an advocate.
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