CrPC 141 — Procedure on order being made absolute and consequences of disobedience

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) When  an  order  has
been  made  absolute  under  section  136  or  section  138,    the  Magistrate  shall  give  notice  of  the  same  to  the  person

against  whom  the  order  was  made,  and  shall  further  require  him  to  perform  the  act  directed by  the  order  within  a
time to be fixed in the notice, and inform him that, in case of disobedience, he will be liable to the penalty provided by section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
(2) If  such  act  is  not  performed  within  the  time  fixed,  the  Magistrate  may  cause  it  to  be  performed,  and  may
recover the costs of performing it, either by the sale of any building, goods or other property removed by his order,
or by the  distress and sale of any other movable property of such person within or without such Magistrate’s local
jurisdiction, and if such other property is without such jurisdiction, the order shall authorise its attachment and sale when endorsed by the Magistrate within whose local jurisdiction the property to be attached is found.
(3) No suit shall lie in respect of anything done in good faith under this section.

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