Coroners Act ,1871
Act No : 4
Section : FINE ON JUROR NEGLECTING TO ATTEND
SECTION 31: FINE ON JUROR NEGLECTING TO ATTEND
- Whenever any person has been duly summoned to appear as a juror by a Coroner, and fails or neglects to attend at the time and place specified in the summons, the Coroner may cause him to be openly called in his Court three times to appear and serve as a juror; and upon the non-appearance of such person, and proof that such summons has been served upon him or left at his usual place of abode, may impose such fine upon the defaulter, not exceeding fifty rupees, as to the Coroner seems fit.
State Amendments
Maharashtra: For Section 31 substituted the following, namely- 31. List of Jurors.-
(1) The Coroners shall prepare and from time to time revise a list of sufficient number of persons of good character and adequate education, liable to serve as jurors in his Court,
(2) All male persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty whose names are not in the Common Jury list of the High Court, shall, subject to the exemptions mentioned in Section 320 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, be liable to serve as jurors in the Coroner's Court.
(3) Fine on juror neglecting to attend.- Whenever any person has been duly summoned to appear as a juror by a Coroner, and fails or neglects to attend at the time and place specified in the summons, the Coroner may cause him to be openly called in his Court three times to appear and serve as a juror, and upon the non-appearance-of such person, and proof that such summons has been served upon him or left at his usual place of abode, may impose such fine upon the defaulter, not exceeding fifty rupees as to the Coroner seems fit:
Provided that the Coroner may, in his discretion, remit any fine so imposed.- Bombay Act XIII of 1930, Section 4.
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