IPC Section 174 — Non-attendance in obedience to an order from public servant

Summary

A person who is legally required to appear in person or send a representative to a specific place and time because of a summons, notice, order, or proclamation from a lawful public official, and who deliberately does not show up or leaves before being allowed to leave, can be punished with simple imprisonment for up to one month, a fine of up to five hundred rupees, or both.

Official Text

Whoever, being legally bound to attend in person or by an agent at a certain place and time in obedience to a summons, notice, order, or proclamation proceeding from any public servant legally competent, as such public servant, to issue the same, intentionally omits to attend at that place or time, or departs from the place where he is bound to attend before the time at which it is lawful for him to depart, shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both;

Related Judgments

• SC (2024) Vol.3 p.421 — Supreme Court of India (2024)
• STATE OF U.P v. MATA BHIKH AND ORS. MARCH 9, .1994 — Supreme Court of India (1994)
• WP/21604/2000 — Madras High Court (2000)
• Rajesh ... Sole Appellant vs The State — Madras High Court (2011)
• HCP/1695/2018 — Madras High Court (2018)
• SC (1960) Vol.1 p.290 — Supreme Court of India (1960)
• STATE OF WEST BENGAL v. SHYAMADAS 1211 BANERJEE & ANOTHER — Supreme Court of India (2008)
• NARESH KUMAR MADAN v. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH -- APRIL IO, 2007 B — Supreme Court of India (2007)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BNS §208 — Non-attendance in obedience to an order from public servant