CrPC Section 105G: Notice of forfeiture of property
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 7A: Reciprocal Arrangments for Assistance in Certain Matters and Procedure for Attachment and forfeiture of Property
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
105G. Notice of forfeiture of property.- (1) If as a result of the inquiry, investigation or survey under section 105D, the Court has reason to believe that all or any of such properties are proceeds of crime, it may serve a notice upon such person thereinafter referred to as the person affected) calling upon him within a period of thirty days specified in the notice to indicate the source of income, earning or assets, out of which or by means of which he has acquired such property, the evidence on which he relies and other relevant information and particulars, and to show cause why all or any of such properties, as the case may be, should not be declared to be proceeds of crime and forfeited to the Central Government.
(2) Where a notice under sub-section (1) to any person specifies any property as being held on behalf of such person by any other person, a copy of the notice shall also be served upon such other person.
Bare act text for reference, current to 30 June 2024. It is not legal advice; check the official gazette for authoritative text.
Other sections in this chapter
- 105A. Definitions
- 105B. Assistance in securing transfer of persons
- 105C. Assistance in relation to orders of attachment or forfeiture of property
- 105D. Identifying unlawfully acquired property
- 105E. Seizure or attachment of property
- 105F. Management of properties seized or forfeited under this Chapter
- 105H. Forfeiture of property in certain cases
- 105I. Fine in lieu of forfeiture
- 105J. Certain transfers to be null and void
- 105K. Procedure in respect of letter of request
- 105L. Application of this Chapter