Procedure where witness apprehended cannot give evidence or produce document. – Where any person arrested under a warrant is brought before the Court in custody and cannot, owing to the absence of the parties or any of them , give the evidence or produce the document which he has been summoned to give or produce, the Court may require him to give reasonable bail or other security for his appearance at such time and place as it thinks fit, on such bail or security being given, may release him, and, in default of his giving such bail or security, any order him to be detained in the civil prison.
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