ENACTMENT NO. 3 OF 1964 ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT, 1963
PART V - PROCEDURE-GENERAL Procedure-Criminal
Section 31. Bail and remand.
(1) When any person against whom an information given under section 28 is produced before a Court, the Court may proceed to try such person or may adjourn or postpone the trial on such terms as it thinks fit and for such time as it considers reasonable, and may grant bail to such person, such bail being in cash or by bond (with or without sureties).
(2) If the trial against any person is adjourned or postponed, such person shall, unless bail is granted, be remanded by warrant of the Court in custody and be detained in prison pending trial.
(3) No Court shall remand any person in custody for a term exceeding eight days at any one time or thirty-two days in the aggregate.
(4) If by the end of aggregate period of thirty-two days aforesaid a person is not tried before a Court, he shall forthwith be produced in Court and the Court shall discharge him.
In this sub-section "discharge" means a discharge not amounting to an acquittal.