Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter XXXV: Provisions As to Bail and Bonds
Section 489: Discharge of sureties
In plain words
Sureties can apply at any time to a Magistrate to be discharged from the bond. The Magistrate then has the released person arrested or accepts their surrender, discharges the bond for those sureties, and requires the person to find new sufficient sureties, or else jails them.
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Official text
(1) All or any sureties for the attendance and appearance of a person released on bail may at any time apply to a Magistrate to discharge the bond, either wholly or so far as relates to the applicants.
(2) On such application being made, the Magistrate shall issue his warrant of arrest directing that the person so released be brought before him.
(3) On the appearance of such person pursuant to the warrant, or on his voluntary surrender, the Magistrate shall direct the bond to be discharged either wholly or so far as relates to the applicants, and shall call upon such person to find other sufficient sureties, and, if he fails to do so, may commit him to jail.
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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.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 489
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