“Without passing such an order the Senior Special Tribunal could not have treated the appellant as an absconding accused under sub-section (6A) of section 27, because an absent person should not be too readily assumed to be an absconder without fixing a date for his appearance and without directing his sureties to produce him”.

( 50 DLR (HCD) (1998) 220 )

See also abscondence, abscond and absence.