IPC Section 173 - Preventing service of summons or other proceeding, or preventing publication thereof

173. Preventing service of summons or other proceeding, or preventing publication thereof

Whoever in any manner intentionally prevents the serving on himself, o r on any other person, of any

summons, notice or order proceeding from any pu blic servant legally competent, as such public servant,

to issue such summons, notice or order,

or intentionally prevents the lawful affixing to any place of any such summons, notice or order,

or intentionally removes any such summons, notice or order from any place t o which it is lawfully

affixed,

or intentionally prevents the lawful making of any proclamation, under the authority of any public

servant legally competent, as such public servant, to direct such proclamation to be made,

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;

or, if the summons, notice, or der or proclamation is to attend in person or by agent, or 1[to produce a

document or electronic record in a Court of Justice] with simple imprisonment for a term which may

extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.