2015 (5) TMI 1228

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....registered under Sections 365/366/494/506/376/120B IPC and Section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 at Police Station Ajnala, Amritsar Rural, District Amritsar. 2. Brief facts for the disposal of present case are to the effect that in a case arising from the aforesaid FIR, on 16.08.2014 learned SDJM, Ajnala, issued arrest warrants against the petitioner for 20.08.2014. On 20.08.2014 proclamation of the petitioner was issued for 23.08.2014 on the report that he was intentionally avoiding service and case was adjourned to 25.09.2014. Vide impugned order dated 25.09.2014 petitioner has been declared proclaimed offender. Hence, this petition. 3. I have heard learned counsel for the partie....

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....h person ordinarily resides or to some conspicuous place of such town or village; (c) a copy thereof shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the Court-house; (ii) the Court may also, if it thinks fit, direct a copy of the proclamation to be published in a daily newspaper circulating in the place in which such person ordinarily resides. 8. In Jagdev Khan v. Emperor, A.I.R. (35) 1948 Lahore 151, the Hon'ble Lahore High Court dealt with the provisions relating to proclamation of person absconding, contained under Section 87 of the old Cr.P.C. which reads as under: - (1) If any Court has reason to believe ..... that any person against whom a warrant has been issued by it has ..... such Court may publish a written proclamati....