(1) Every person detained in the civil prison in execution of a decree shall be so detained,-
(a) where the decree is for the payment of a sum of money exceeding five thousand rupees, for a period not exceeding three months, and,
(b) where the decree is for the payment of a sum of money exceeding two thousand rupees, but not exceeding five thousand rupees, for a period not exceeding six weeks.
(1A) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that no order for detention of the judgment debtor in civil prison in execution of a decree for the payment of money shall be made, where the total amount of the decree does not exceed two thousand rupees.
(2) A judgment-debtor released from detention under this section shall not merely by reason of his release be discharged from his debt, but he shall not be liable to be re-arrested under the decree in execution of which he was detained in the civil prison.
51 CPC Powers of Court to enforce execution
52 CPC Enforcement of decree against legal representative
53 CPC Liability of ancestral property
54 CPC Partition of estate or separation of share
56 CPC Prohibition of arrest or detention of women in execution of decree for money
59 CPC Release on ground of illness
60 CPC Property liable to attachment and sale in execution of decree