(1) If, in the course of an investigation into an offence, an application is made by the investigating officer or any officer superior in rank to the investigating officer that evidence may be available in a country or place outside India, any Criminal Court may issue a letter of request to a Court or an authority in that country or place competent to deal with such request to examine orally any person supposed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case and to record his statement made in the course of such examination and also to require such person or any other person to produce any document or thing which may be in his possession pertaining to the case and to forward all the evidence so taken or collected or the authenticated copies thereof or the thing so collected to the Court issuing such letter.
(2) The letter of request shall be transmitted in such manner as the Central Government may specify in this behalf.
(3) Every statement recorded or document or thing received under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be the evidence collected during the course of investigation under this Sanhita.
Legal Commentary & Landmark Judgments: Section 112
Section 112 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 authorizes Executive Magistrates to require bonds for keeping the peace in non-conviction situations.
Section 112 is frequently misused by police during local disputes or election cycles. A show-cause notice under Section 112 that merely recites police apprehension without specific overt acts is vulnerable to quashing before the High Court.