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.