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Exemption from arrest.

(Querist) 12 August 2010 This query is : Resolved 
135. Exemption from arrest under civil process.


(1) No Judge, Magistrate or other judicial officer shall be liable to arrest under civil process while going to, presiding in, or returning from his Court.

(2) Where any matter is pending before a tribunal having jurisdiction therein, or believing in good faith that it has such jurisdiction, the parties thereto, their pleader, mukhtars, revenue-agents and recognized agents, and their witnesses acting in obedience to a summons, shall be exempt from arrest under civil process other than process issued by such tribunal for contempt of Court while going to or attending such tribunal for the purpose of such matter, and while returning from such tribunal.

(3) Nothing in sub-section (2) shall enable a judgment-debtor to claim exemption from arrest under an order for immediate execution or where such judgment-debtor attends to show cause why he should not be committed to person in execution of a decree.

Query : 1) What does the judgment debtor means & the sub section 2 & 3 of the above mentioned section says in detail with the example pls.

2) As per sub section if the process is of contempt of court than the person mentioned under the sub section 2 can be arrested it means that or any other meaning appears pls correct me. Also defination of civil process as per the section 135 of the CPC.

3) Again pls explin me in detail what sub section 2 & 3 what's to convey in detail if possible with the help of a example(S).

Thanks In Advance.
M/s. Y-not legal services (Expert) 30 July 2015
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