Proclamation for person absconding
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Summary
If a court believes a person with a warrant is absconding or hiding, it may publish a written proclamation ordering them to appear at a named place and time at least 30 days after publication. The proclamation must be read publicly, affixed at the person’s ordinary residence and at the court-house, and may be published in a local daily; the court’s written note of publication is conclusive proof. For offences carrying 10+ years, life, or death, failure to appear may lead, after inquiry, to being declared a proclaimed offender.
Example
Priya files an FIR accusing Rohan of robbery punishable with 10 years. The court issues a warrant but Rohan hides. The court publicly reads and posts a proclamation asking him to appear 40 days later and records the publication. Rohan does not appear; after inquiry the court declares him a proclaimed offender.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) If any Court has reason to believe (whether after taking evidence or not) that any person against whom a warrant has been issued by it has absconded or is concealing himself so that such warrant cannot be executed, such Court may publish a written proclamation requiring him to appear at a specified place and at a specified time not less than thirty days from the date of publishing such proclamation.
(2) The proclamation shall be published as follows:-
(i) (a) it shall be publicly read in some conspicuous place of the town or village in which such person ordinarily resides;
(b) it shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the house or homestead in which such person ordinarily resides or to some conspicuous place of such town or village;
(c) a copy thereof shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the Court-house;
(ii) the Court may also, if it thinks fit, direct a copy of the proclamation to be published in a daily newspaper circulating in the place in which such person ordinarily resides.
(3) A statement in writing by the Court issuing the proclamation to the effect that the proclamation was duly published on a specified day, in the manner specified in clause (i) of sub-section (2), shall be conclusive evidence that the requirements of this section have been complied with, and that the proclamation was published on such day.
(4) Where a proclamation published under sub-section (1) is in respect of a person accused of an offence which is made punishable with imprisonment of ten years or more, or imprisonment for life or with death under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 or under any other law for the time being in force, and such person fails to appear at the specified place and time required by the proclamation, the Court may, after making such inquiry as it thinks fit, pronounce him a proclaimed offender and make a declaration to that effect.
(5) The provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3) shall apply to a declaration made by the Court under sub-section (4) as they apply to the proclamation published under sub-section (1).
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