35. 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 any premises, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee or as receiver, or who would receive the same if the premises were let to a tenant and includes the person whose name is entered in the Valuation List authenticated under the provisions of section 15 of the Property Tax Act;
The summons may be served in the manner specified in section 57.
If the owner does not appear on the date of 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.[34