Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter IX: Security for Keeping the Peace and for Good Behaviour
Section 136: Order to give security
In plain words
If the inquiry proves that a bond is needed to keep the peace or for good behaviour, the Magistrate orders it. The security cannot be of a different kind, larger, or for longer than in the section 130 order, and must not be excessive. A child's bond is signed only by sureties.
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Official text
If, upon such inquiry, it is proved that it is necessary for keeping the peace or maintaining good behaviour, as the case may be, that the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made should execute a bond or bail bond, the Magistrate shall make an order accordingly:
Provided that—
(a) no person shall be ordered to give security of a nature different from, or of an amount larger than, or for a period longer than, that specified in the order made under section 130;
(b) the amount of every bond or bail bond shall be fixed with due regard to the circumstances of the case and shall not be excessive;
(c) when the person in respect of whom the inquiry is made is a child, the bond shall be executed only by his sureties.
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