Absconding to avoid service: evading lawful summons triggers criminal penalties and stricter sanctions for avoiding personal attendance or document production. Absconding to avoid service of a summons, notice or order by a public servant competent to issue it is an offence of contempt. The provision prescribes simple imprisonment or a fine, or both, for general avoidance, and prescribes a stiffer term of simple imprisonment or higher fine, or both, where the summons or order requires personal attendance or production of a document or electronic record in court.
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Absconding to avoid service: evading lawful summons triggers criminal penalties and stricter sanctions for avoiding personal attendance or document production.
Absconding to avoid service of a summons, notice or order by a public servant competent to issue it is an offence of contempt. The provision prescribes simple imprisonment or a fine, or both, for general avoidance, and prescribes a stiffer term of simple imprisonment or higher fine, or both, where the summons or order requires personal attendance or production of a document or electronic record in court.
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