Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
BNSS 134 was CrPC 115.
Power to dispense with personal attendance. · The NCRB table marks it as changed. Compare the wording below.
Modified
96% of the old wording kept
Old · CrPC 1973 · Ch. VIII
s. 115
Power to dispense with personal attendance
The Magistrate may, if he sees sufficient cause, dispense with the personal attendance of any person called upon to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond for keeping the peace or for good behaviour and may permit him to appear by a pleader.
Text from the official India Code PDF
New · BNSS 2023 · Ch. IX
s. 134
Power to dispense with personal attendance.
The Magistrate may, if he sees sufficient cause, dispense with the personal attendance of any person called upon to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond for keeping the peace or for good behaviour and may permit him to appear by an advocate.
Text from India Code