How to serve Summons on Corporate Bodies and Societies? Section 63 of CRPC. What are the modes of serving summon to Companies, Body Corporate and Societies as per Code of Criminal Procedure 1973

Section 63 of Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 has provision related to serving of Summon on Corporate Bodies and Societies. The mode and procedure for serving summons is.

Section 63 Service of summons on corporate bodies and societies

Service of a summons on a corporation may be effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or other principal officer of the corporation, or by letter sent by registered post, addressed to the chief officer of the corporation in India, in which case the service shall be deemed to have been effected when the letter would arrive in ordinary course of post.

Explanation.- In this section, "corporation" means an incorporated company or other body corporate and includes a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (21 of 1860).