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by rob32n 1449 days ago
Here is some description of Section 91:-

Whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that the production of any document or other thing is necessary or desirable for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code by or before such Court or officer, such Court may issue a summons, or such officer a written order, to the person in whose possession or power such document or thing is believed to be, requiring him to attend and produce it, or to produce it, at the time and place stated in the summons or ordeR

Section 91 has been used in 2020 as well by Kerala Govt ( state govt)

https://m.timesofindia.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/cbi-invok...

It seems author of this post doesn’t understand law. India penal code is fundamental from west laws.

Section is used to for “summons to produce” and comes under “process to compel production of things”

The post owner simple intention is to harm Razorpay reputation. He also changed the headline of this post from Original post.

In this section police office has full authority to produce things and it has been used prior to this case in India to produce financial documents. There is no need of court order in this scenario as per section 91.

Summon can issued by a court or police office, by law this both have same power to do so to produce document associated with the case.