Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter IX: Security for Keeping the Peace and for Good Behaviour
Section 139: Contents of bond
In plain words
The bond binds the person to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour. For a good behaviour bond, committing, attempting or abetting any offence punishable with imprisonment, anywhere, breaks the bond.
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Official text
The bond or bail bond to be executed by any such person shall bind him to keep the peace or to be of good behaviour, as the case may be, and in the latter case the commission or attempt to commit, or the abetment of, any offence punishable with imprisonment, wherever it may be committed, is a breach of the bond or bail bond.
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Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 12 September 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
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