CPC Section 59 - Release on ground of illness
Description of CPC Section 59 - Release on ground of illness
- (1)At any time after a warrant for the arrest of a judgment-debtor has been issued the Court may cancel it on the ground of his serious illness.
- (2)Where a judgment-debtor has been arrested, the Court may release him if, in its opinion, he is not in a fit state of health to be detained in the civil prison.
- (3)Where a judgment-debtor has been committed to the civil prison, he may be released therefrom—
- (a) by the State Government, on the ground of the existence of any infectious or contagious disease, or
- (b) by the committing Court, or any Court to which that Court is subordinate, on the ground of his suffering from any serious illness.
- (4)A judgment-debtor released under this section may be re-arrested, but the period of his detention in civil prison shall not in the aggregate exceed that prescribed by section 58.
