Section 145:
Resistance of distraint.
If any person shall resist a distraint of property duly made under
this Act, or shal1forcibly or clandestinely remove any distrained property, the Collector, upon complaint
being made within fifteen days from the date of such resistance or removal, shall cause the person
accused to be arrested, and if the offence be proved and the offender be the owner of the property, shall
order him to be imprisoned in the Civil jail for six months, or until the whole arrear due to the distrainer
with all expenses and costs shall sooner be paid or levied by distress and sale of the property of the
offender under warrant of the Collector. If the person convicted of the offence be any other than the
owner of the property, he shall make good to the distrainer the value of the same, and shall further be
liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred Rupees, or in default of payment thereof to imprisonment for a
period not exceeding two months.