Section 157
Property May Be Auctioned
(1) If any offender cannot be arrested
even until six months from the date of issue of warrant for arresting
that offender pursuant to sub-section (4) of Section 151, the amount
of fine or compensation payable as per the judgment shall be
recovered by receiving cash from the concerned body or institution if
the property attached pursuant to Section 156 is cash and by
auctioning the property so attached if it is other movable or
immovable property and paying the amount in consideration for a
fine or government claimed amount to the consolidated fund, and the
amount remaining upon payment of compensation, if any, shall be
returned to his or her successor.
(2) If the offender is arrested before terminating the record
of sentence pursuant to this Act and intends to pay in cash the fine,
claimed amount or compensation to which he or she is liable, the
sentence of imprisonment shall be executed by returning to him or
her the property attached pursuant to Section 156, upon recovering
the expenses incurred in the execution of such attachment if such
property has not yet been auctioned, and the proceeds of the auction
sale of the property upon recovering the expenses incurred in the
execution of such attachment and auction, if such property has been
auctioned.