CPC 74 — Resistance to execution

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Statutory text

Where  the  Court  is  satisfied  that  the  holder  of  a  decree  for  the  possession  of
immovable property or that the purchaser of immovable property sold in execution of a decree has been resisted or obstructed  in  obtaining  possession  of  the  property by  the  judgment-debtor  or  some  person  on  his  behalf  and  that such  resistance  or  obstruction  was  without  any  just  cause,  the  Court  may,  at  the  instance  of  the  decree-holder  or purchaser,  order  the  judgment-debtor  or  such  other person  to  be  detained  in  the  civil  prison  for  a  term  which  may extend  to  thirty  days  and  may  further  direct  that  the  decree-holder  or  purchaser  be  put  into  possession  of  the property.

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