Penalty for failure to comply with section 154

When a person who was served an order under the earlier provision fails to do the required act or does not appear to show cause, they become liable to the penalty set out in section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The provisional order then becomes absolute.

Priya was ordered to remove a small roadside stall and to appear in court to show cause. She neither removed the stall nor appeared. Under this rule she would face the penalty in section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and the order would be made absolute.