Order 21 rule 37

Dear Divvya,

Put an application before the execution court u/s 151 CPC - expressing your inability to pay - and asking for the court to devise a scheme of monthly installments if the same is accceptable to DH too.

Legally as per S.51 Proviso CPC - Decree against the person of Judgmenet Debtor i.e by arrest can only be passed in cases of wilful disregard of payment even after having means or where the person was bound in fiduciary capacity to pay. 

There are judgments as well as provisions of ICCPR - that say a man cannot be punished or sent behind the bars for his inability to pay.

Good legal representation at this stage might help you avert arrest. 

Feel free to seek any clarifications.

Best of Luck !

Bharat

Advocate (Delhi)

Convenor : Lawyers for Social Justice

Tel : 9810553252 (only 6 to 9 PM) 

If you have no suffieint means to pay the decretal amount you make an application before the executing court seek  exemption from arrest . After you application mean enquiry will conduct then executing court would decide if you have no means. Once you files application  the burden shifts to Decree Holder prove that the JDr have sufficent means to pay the decreatal amount.