Civil Procedure Rules
17. Procedure where witness apprehended cannot give evidence or produce document [Order 16, rule 17]
17. Procedure where witness apprehended cannot give evidence or produce document [Order 16, rule 17]
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, and on such bail or security being given may release him, and in default of his giving such bail or security may order him to be detained in prison.Source: Kenya Law