Criminal Procedure Code 47 Proclamation and Attachment Proclamation for person absconding 44. (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 the warrant cannot be executed the 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 the proclamation. (2) The proclamation shall be published as follows: (a) it shall be publicly read in some conspicuous place of the town, village or kampong in or near which that person ordinarily resides; (b) it shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the house or other place in which that person ordinarily resides or in some conspicuous place of the town, village or kampong; and (c) a copy thereof shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the Court-house. (3) A statement in writing by the Court issuing the proclamation to the effect that the proclamation was duly published on a specified day shall be conclusive evidence that the requirements of this section have been complied with and that the proclamation was published on that day. Attachment of property of person proclaimed 45. (1) The Court issuing a proclamation under section 44 may at any time order the attachment of any property movable or immovable or both belonging to the proclaimed person. (2) The order shall authorize the attachment of any property belonging to the person within the local jurisdiction of the Court by which it is made, and it shall authorize the attachment of any property belonging to that person without such jurisdiction when indorsed by a Magistrate within whose jurisdiction the property is situate.