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CHAPTER X MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER AND TRANQUILLITY · B.–Public nuisances

Section 141: Procedure on order being made absolute and consequences of disobedience

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

(1) When an order has

been made absolute under section 136 or section 138, the Magistrate shall give notice of the same to the person

against whom the order was made, and shall further require him to perform the act directed by the order within a

time to be fixed in the notice, and inform him that, in case of disobedience, he will be liable to the penalty provided

by section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).

(2) If such act is not performed within the time fixed, the Magistrate may cause it to be performed, and may

recover the costs of performing it, either by the sale of any building, goods or other property removed by his order,

or by the distress and sale of any other movable property of such person within or without such Magistrate’s local

jurisdiction, and if such other property is without such jurisdiction, the order shall authorise its attachment and sale

when endorsed by the Magistrate within whose local jurisdiction the property to be attached is found.

(3) No suit shall lie in respect of anything done in good faith under this section.

Now in the BNSS

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

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