(1) Where agricultural produce is attached, the Court shall make such arrangements for the custody thereof as it may deem sufficient and, for the purpose of enabling the Court to make such arrangements, every application for the attachment of a growing crop shall specify the time at which it is likely to be fit to be cut or gathered.
(2) Subject to such conditions as may be imposed by the Court in this behalf either in the order of attachment or in any subsequent order, the judgment-debtor may tend, cut, gather and store the produce and do any other act necessary for maturing or preserving it; and if the judgment-debtor fails to do, all or any of such acts, the decree-holder may, with the permission of the Court and subject to the like conditions, do all or any of them either by himself or by any person appointed by him in this behalf and the costs incurred by the decree holder shall be recoverable from the judgment-debtor as if they were included in, or formed part of, the decree.
(3) Agricultural produce attached as a growing crop shall not be deemed to have ceased to be under attachment or to require re-attachment merely because it has been served from the soil.
(4) Where an order for the attachment of a growing crop has been made at a considerable time before the crop is likely to be fit to be cut or gathered, the Court may suspend the execution of the order for such time as it thinks fit, and may, in its discretion, make a further order prohibiting the removal of the crop pending the execution of the order of attachment.
(5) A growing crop which from its nature does not admit of being stored shall not be attached under this rule at any time less than twenty days before the time at which it is likely to be fit to be cut or gathered.
Order XXI Rule 41 CPC Examination of judgment-debtor as to his property
Order XXI Rule 43A CPC Custody of movable property
Order XXI Rule 44 CPC Attachment of agricultural produce
Order XXI Rule 45 CPC Provisions as to agricultural produce under attachment
Order XXI Rule 46A CPC Notice to garnishee
Order XXI Rule 46B CPC Order against garnishee
Order XXI Rule 46C CPC Trial of disputed questions
Order XXI Rule 46D CPC Procedure where debt belongs to third person
Order XXI Rule 46E CPC Order as regards third person
Order XXI Rule 46F CPC Payment by garnishee to be valid discharge
Order XXI Rule 46H CPC Appeals
Order XXI Rule 46I CPC Application to negotiable instruments
Order XXI Rule 47 CPC Attachment of share in movables
Order XXI Rule 48A CPC Attachment of salary or allowances of private employees