CrPC Section 142 — Injunction pending inquiry

CHAPTER X MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ORDER AND TRANQUILLITY — B.—Public nuisances

General

Summary

Sub-section (1) allows a Magistrate who has made an order under section 133 to issue an injunction to the person named in that order if the Magistrate considers immediate action necessary to prevent imminent danger or injury of a serious kind to the public. The injunction must be what is needed to prevent that danger or injury while the matter is being decided.

Sub-section (2) says that if the person does not obey the injunction immediately, the Magistrate may use, or arrange for the use of, any means the Magistrate considers suitable to prevent the danger or injury.

Sub-section (3) says that no suit may be brought for anything a Magistrate does in good faith under this section.

Official Text

(1) If a Magistrate making an order under section 133 considers that immediate measures should be taken to prevent imminent danger or injury of a serious kind to the public, he may issue such an injunction to the person against whom the order was made, as is required to obviate or prevent such danger or injury pending the determination of the matter.

(2) In default of such person forthwith obeying such injunction, the Magistrate may himself use, or cause to be used, such means as he thinks fit to obviate such danger or to prevent such injury.

(3) No suit shall lie in respect of anything done in good faith by a Magistrate under this section.

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