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Section 135 CPC — Exemption from arrest under civil process

The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 · Official PDF page 80

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135. Exemption from arrest under civil process.—(1) No Judge, Magistrate or other judicial officer shall be liable to arrest under civil process while going to, presiding in, or returning from, his Court.

(2) Where any matter is pending before a tribunal having jurisdiction therein, or believing in good faith that it has such jurisdiction, the parties thereto, their pleaders, mukhtars, revenue -agents and recognized agents, and their witnesses acting in obedience to a summons, shall be e xempt from arrest under civil process other than process issued by such tribunal for contempt of Court while going to or attending such tribunal for the purpose of such matter, and while returning from such tribunal.

(3) Nothing in sub -section (2) shall enable a judgment -debtor to claim exemption from arrest under an order for immediate execution or where such judgment -debtor attends to show cause why he should not be committed to prison in execution of a decree.

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