52. Proceedings where owner is unknown
Feedback & supportWhere the name or address of the owner of any premises with regard to which a Magistrate’s Court is empowered to make a mandatory order is unknown and cannot with reasonable diligence be discovered, the Court may issue a summons addressed to the owner of the premises.
owner
“owner” means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person or as receiver or who would receive the rent if the premises were let to a tenant and shall for the purposes of section 40 include a mortgagee not in possession and includes the person whose name is entered in the Valuation List authenticated under section 15 of the Property Tax Act;
The summons may be served in the manner specified in section 80.
If the owner does not appear upon the hearing of the summons, the Court may make such an order upon him in his absence as it might have made in his presence except that it shall not inflict any fine upon him.[90