Section 388.   Imprisonment or committal of person refusing to answer or produce document.

If any witness or person called to produce a document or thing before a Criminal
Court refuses to answer such questions as are put to him or to produce any document or
thing in his possession or power which the Court requires him to produce, and does not,
after a reasonable opportunity has been given to him so to do, offer any reasonable excuse
for such refusal, such Court may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, sentence him to
simple imprisonment, or by warrant under the hand of the Presiding Magistrate or Judge
commit him to the custody of an officer of the Court for any term not exceeding seven days,
unless in the meantime, such person consents to be examined and to answer, or to produce
the document or thing and in the event of his persisting in his refusal, he may be dealt with
according to the provisions of section 384 or section 385.