Section 183: Identity of victim or witness may be kept secret

1) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, if the investigation authority thinks that the disclosure of the identity of a person who is a victim or witness of any particular offence may be prejudicial to the social prestige or honor of such person or witness or may result in undue fear, terror or fright by the accused or other party or be prejudicial to his or her body or life, the authority may make a request to the court, through the government attorney, that the name, surname, address of such person or witness or the name of his or her father or any other description which may disclose his or her identity be kept secret.

2) If a request is made pursuant to sub-section (1), the court may order that the name, surname and address of such victim or witness and his or her father’s name or his or her identity be kept secret.

3) In disclosing the name, surname, address of the person or his or her father’s name having been kept secret pursuant to sub section (1) at the time of hearing of the concerned case or publishing details pertaining thereto, such disclosure shall be made under fake name, surname, address or father’s name, pursuant to the order of the court.