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Section 132

Section 132. Penalty for failure to attend in obedience to order of Revenue officer

(1) If a person required by a summons, notice, order or proclamation proceeding from a Revenue officer under the provisions of this Act to attend at a certain time at any place within the limits of his jurisdiction fails to comply with the requisition without a reasonable excuse, he shall be liable at the discretion of the Revenue officer to a fine which may extend to 1[rupees fifty thousand] but shall not be less than 1[rupees five thousand] in any case.

2[(2) The fine so imposed shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue.]

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.