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BNSS Section 157: Procedure where person against whom order is made under section 152 appears to show cause

Section 157 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 deals with procedure where person against whom order is made under section 152 appears to show cause. It replaces CrPC 138 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

Text of BNSS Section 157

157, the Magistrate shall give notice of the same to the person against whom the order was made, and shall further require him to perform the act directed by the order within the time to be fixed in the notice, and inform him that, in case of disobedience, he shall be liable to the penalty provided by section 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

(2) If such act is not performed within the time fixed, the Magistrate may cause it to be performed, and may recover the costs of performing it, either by the sale of any building, goods or other property removed by his order, or by the distress and

sale of any other movable property of such person within or without such Magistrate's local jurisdiction, and if such other property is without such jurisdiction, the order shall authorise its attachment and sale when endorsed by the Magistrate within whose local jurisdiction the property to be attached is found.

(3) No suit shall lie in respect of anything done in good faith under this section. Injunction pending inquiry.

CrPC sections replaced

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