WHAT IS PROCESS FEES IN A CASE AND PROCEDURE TO FILE PROCESS FEE IN COURT

Process fees (PF)

A process fee is chargeable by the court to serve the other party involved in the case for example for serving summons, notices, and so on. Whenever anything has to be served to another party through court, pf is filed.  No process shall be issued until the proper fee for its service has been paid; however, as soon as the process fee is paid by a party, a receipt in the prescribed form shall be granted by the Ahlmad and the Court-fee label indicating the fee shall then be attached to the diary of process fees and immediately punched. The process will then be prepared, but the party that requested it will be free to issue or not issue it as he sees proper.

2.Fees—

Name of process	Court  fees(Rs)
Summons	2
Warrant of arrest	2
Calling the witness	2

Checklist:

First and foremost you require the copy of the documents to be served to the other party. The number of copies must be equal to the number of addresses where the document needs to be served.

Secondly get a pf form and fill the particulars required to be filled. Particulars includes name of the parties, case number, last date of hearing and next date of hearing, filing date, filed by whom, number of copies and lastly the amount of process  fees. Further, you are required to attach court fees label of Rupees 2 in the pf form.

Subsequent to this you need to get the pf form signed by the Alhamad. Every judge is assigned an alhamad, after signing the pf form the alhamad will provide you with the receiving of the pf. One needs to take the receiving and deposit the copies of document and pf form to the alhamad.

Some common rules to be kept in mind:

1. Fresh fee payable when a fresh process has to issue for want of correct address.
2. No process fee for several attempts to serve the same process.
3. No process fee for several attempts to serve the same process.
4. A separate process shall be issued for each person summoned or arrested, or upon whom a notice is served; and subject to the rule next following, a separate fee shall be charged for each process.