Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
136.Procedure where person to be arrested or property to be attached is
outside district.-
(1) Where an application is made that any
person shall be arrested or that any property shall be attached under any
provision of this Code not relating to the execution of decrees, and such ,s
person resides or such property is situate outside the local limits of the
jurisdiction of the Court to which the application is made, the Court may, in
its discretion, issue a warrant of arrest or make an order of attachment, and
send to the District Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction such
person or property resides or is situate a copy of the warrant or order,
together with the probable amount of the costs of the arrest or attachment.
(2) The District Court shall, on receipt of such copy and amount, cause the
arrest or attachment to be made by its own officers, or by a Court subordinate
to itself, and shall inform the Court which issued or made such warrant or
order of the arrest or attachment.
(3) The Court making an arrest under this section shall send the person
arrested to the Court by which the warrant of arrest was issued, unless he
shows cause to the satisfaction of the former Court why he should not be sent
to the latter Court, or unless he furnishes sufficient security for his
appearance before the latter Court or for satisfying any decree that may be
passed against him by that Court, in either of which cases the Court making the
arrest shall release him.
(4) Where a person to be arrested or movable property to be attached under this
section is within the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction
of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal or at Madras or at
Bombay, {'The words "or of the Chief Court of Lower Burma" by the
A.O.1937.} the copy of the warrant of arrest or of the order of attachment, and
the probable amount of the costs of the arrest or attachment, shall be sent to
the Court of Small Causes of Calcutta, Madras {.Subs. by the A.O.1937 for
"Bombay or Rangoon".} [or Bombay], as the case may be, and that
Court, on receipt of the copy and amount, shall proceed as if it were the
District Court.