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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

( ACT NO. V OF 1898 )

Chapter XLII

PROVISIONS AS TO BONDS

Procedure on forfeiture of bond
514.(1) Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of the Court by which a bond under this Code has been taken, or of a 1[Metropolitan Magistrate or] Magistrate of the first class,
 
 
or, when the bond is for appearance before a Court, to the satisfaction of such Court, that such bond has been forfeited, the Court shall record the grounds of such proof, and may call upon any person bound by such bond to pay the penalty thereof, or to show cause why it should not be paid.
 
 
(2) If sufficient cause is not shown and the penalty is not paid, the Court may proceed to recover the same by issuing a warrant for the attachment and sale of the movable property belonging to such person or his estate if he be dead.
 
 
(3) Such warrant may be executed within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court which issued it; and it shall authorize the attachment and sale of any movable property belonging to such person without such limits, when endorsed by the District Magistrate 2[***] within the local limits of whose jurisdiction such property is found.
 
 
(4) If such penalty is not paid and cannot be recovered by such attachment and sale, the person so bound shall be liable, by order of the Court which issued the warrant, to imprisonment in the civil jail for a term which may extend to six months.
 
 
(5) The Court may, at its discretion, remit any portion of the penalty mentioned and enforce payment in part only.
 
 
(6) Where a surety to a bond dies before the bond is forfeited, his estate shall be discharged from all liability in respect of the bond.
 
 
(7) When any person who has furnished security under section 106 or section 118 3[***] is convicted of an offence the commission of which constitutes a breach of the conditions of his bond, or of a bond executed in lieu of his bond under section 514B, a certified copy of the judgment of the Court by which he was convicted of such offence may be used as evidence in proceedings under this section against his surety or sureties, and, if such certified copy is so used, the Court shall presume that such offence was committed by him unless the contrary is proved.

  • 1
    The words "Metropolitan Magistrate or" were inserted by Schedule of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance, 1976 (Ordinance No. LXXXVI of 1976)
  • 2
    The words “or Chief Metropolitan Magistrate” were omitted by section 90(a) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2009 (Act No. XXXII of 2009) (with effect from 1st November, 2007).
  • 3
    The words and figure “or section 562” were omitted by section 90(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2009 (Act No. XXXII of 2009) (with effect from 1st November, 2007).
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