1968 (6) TMI 65

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....mon order. 2. The petitioners were involved on a charge of murder in Criminal Case No. 165/2 of 1967 on the file of the First Class Magistrate, Shorapur. Warrants were issued against them when it was stated by the police that they were absconding. Thereafter the Magistrate issued proclamations for the attachment of their property. Those proclamations are challenged by the petitioners in these r....

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....int within 30 days 'from this date.' (Underlining here in single quotation marks-Ed) is mine). It is thus clear that the thirty days time allowed by the Court was from the date of the proclamation and not from the date of its publication as envisaged by Section 87 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. It was obligatory that an absconding person should be given thirty days time from the dat....