CPC 135 — Exemption from arrest under civil process

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Statutory text

(1) No  Judge,  Magistrate  or  other  judicial  officer shall be liable to arrest under civil process while going to, presiding in, or returning from, his Court.
(2)  Where  any  matter  is  pending  before  a  tribunal  having  jurisdiction  therein,  or  believing  in  good faith  that  it  has  such  jurisdiction,  the  parties  thereto,  their  pleaders,  mukhtars,  revenue-agents  and
recognized  agents,  and  their  witnesses  acting  in  obedience  to  a  summons,  shall  be  exempt  from  arrest
under  civil  process  other  than  process  issued  by  such  tribunal  for  contempt  of  Court  while  going  to  or attending such tribunal for the purpose of such matter, and while returning from such tribunal.
(3)  Nothing  in  sub-section (2) shall  enable  a  judgment-debtor  to  claim  exemption  from  arrest  under an  order  for  immediate  execution  or  where  such  judgment-debtor  attends  to  show  cause  why  he  should not be committed to prison in execution of a decree.

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