https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296302 Section 82 CrPC requires a written proclamation only after the court has reason to believe the person has absconded or is concealing himself, with a date fixed not less than thirty days from publication and publication carried out in the prescribed manner. These safeguards are mandatory because they protect the person's opportunity to appear. Where the proclamation was issued on 20.08.2014 for 23.08.2014 and the record did not show proper public reading or affixation, the statutory requirements were not met. The order declaring the petitioner a proclaimed offender was therefore illegal and was rightly set aside. en-us Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 06:25:01 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296302 Section 82 CrPC requires a written proclamation only after the court has reason to believe the person has absconded or is concealing himself, with a date fixed not less than thirty days from publication and publication carried out in the prescribed manner. These safeguards are mandatory because they protect the person's opportunity to appear. Where the proclamation was issued on 20.08.2014 for 23.08.2014 and the record did not show proper public reading or affixation, the statutory requirements were not met. The order declaring the petitioner a proclaimed offender was therefore illegal and was rightly set aside. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296302