Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
82.Proclamation for person absconding.-
(1) If any Court has reason to believe
(whether after taking evidence or not) that any person against whom a warrant
has been issued by it has absconded or is concealing himself so that such
warrant cannot be executed, such Court may public a written proclamation
requiring him to appear at a specified place and at a specified time not less
than thirty days from the date of publishing such proclamation.
(2) The proclamation shall be published as follows:-
(i) (a) it shall be publicly read in some conspicuous place of the town or
village in which such person ordinarily resides;
(b) it shall be affixed to some conspicuous part of the house or homestead in
which such 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.
(3) A statement in writing by the Court
issuing the proclamation to the effect that the proclamation was duly published
on a specified day, in the manner specified in clause (I) of sub-section (2),
shall be conclusive evidence that the requirements of this section have been
complied with, and that the proclamation was published on such day.