CrPC 142 — Injunction pending inquiry

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) If  a  Magistrate  making  an  order  under  section  133  considers  that
immediate measures should be taken to prevent imminent danger or injury of a serious kind to the public, he may
issue  such  an  injunction  to  the  person  against  whom  the  order  was  made,  as  is  required  to  obviate  or  prevent such danger or injury pending the determination of the matter.
(2)  In default of such person forthwith obeying such injunction, the Magistrate may himself use, or cause to be used, such means as he thinks fit to obviate such danger or to prevent such injury.
(3)  No suit shall lie in respect of anything done in good faith by a Magistrate under this section.

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