law: Employee's Provident Funds Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
  10. Protection against attachment
  (1) The amount standing to the credit of any
  
  member in the Fund [or of any exempted employee in a provident fund] shall not
  
  in any way be capable of being assigned or charged and shall not be liable to
  
  attachment under any decree or order of any Court in respect of any debt or
  
  liability incurred by the member [or the exempted employee], and neither the
  
  official assignee appointed under the Presidency Towns Insolvency Act, 1909,
  
  nor any receiver appointed under the Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920, shall be
  
  entitled to, or have any claim on, any such amount.
  (2) Any amount standing to the credit of a
  
  member in the Fund or of an exempted employee in a provident fund at the time
  
  of his death and payable to his nominee under the Scheme or the rules of the
  
  Provident Fund shall, subject to any deduction authorized by the said Scheme or
  
  rules, vest in the nominee and shall be free from any debt or other liability
  
  incurred by the deceased or the nominee before the death of the member or of
  
  the exempted employee [and shall also not be liable to attachment under any
  
  decree or order of any Court.]
  (3) The provisions of sub-section (1) and
  
  sub-section (2) shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to the family
  
  pension or any other amount payable under the 33[Pension] Scheme 11[and
  
  also in relation to any amount payable under the Insurance Scheme] as they
  
  apply in relation to any amount payable out of the Fund.]