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C. Proclamation and attachment.
82.
Proclamation for person absconding.
82. Proclamation for person absconding. (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
of the Court-house;
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(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.
83.
Attachment of Property of person absconding.
83. Attachment of Property of person absconding. (1) The Court
issuing a proclamation under section 82 may, for reasons to be
recorded in writing, at any time after the issue of the proclamation,
order the attachment of any property, movable or immovable, or both,
belonging to the proclaimed person:
Provided that where at the time of the issue of the proclamation
the Court is satisfied, by affidavit or otherwise, that the person in