First Schedule — Order XVI: Summoning and Attendance of Witnesses

Order 16 Rule 5 — Time, place and purpose of attendance to be specified in summons

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Free to read

Every summons for the attendance of a person to give evidence or to produce a document shall specify the time and place at which he is required to attend, and also whether his attendance is required for the purpose of giving evidence or to produce a document, or for both purposes; and any particular document, which the person summoned is called on to produce, shall be described in the summons with reasonable accuracy.