Penalty for failure to attend within limits of estate in obedience to orders of Canal and Revenue Officers

If a person required by a summons, notice, order or proclamation proceedings from a summoning officer to attend at a certain time and place within the limits of the estate in which he resides, or in which he holds or cultivates land, fails to comply with such requisition, he shall be liable at the discretion of the summoning officer to a fine which may extend to fifty rupees, which, if not paid in cash, shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue.