CrPC 459 — Power to sell perishable property

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

If the person entitled to the possession of such property is unknown
or absent and the property is subject to speedy and natural decay, or if the Magistrate to whom its seizure is reported
is of opinion that its sale would be for the benefit of the owner, or that the value of such property is

[less than five
hundred rupees],  the  Magistrate  may  at  any  time  direct  it  to  be  sold;  and  the  provisions  of  sections  457  and  458
shall, as nearly as may be practicable, apply to the net proceeds of such sale.

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