Skip to main content

THE UTTAR PRADESH SUGAR UNDERTAKINGS (ACQUISITION) ACT, 1971

Section 5. Duty to deliver possession

(1) Where any scheduled undertaking has vested in the Corporation under Section 3, every person in whose possession or custody or under whose control any property or asset, book of account, register or other document comprised in that undertaking may be, shall forthwith deliver the same to the Collector. (2) The Collector may take all necessary steps for securing possession of any such property or asset, book of account, register or document, and in particular, may use or cause to be used such force as may be necessary. (3) The Collector shall prepare an inventory of all properties, assets, book of account, registers and documents taken possession of under this section, so far as practicable in the presence of the occupier or his authorised representative. (4) Delivery of possession to the Collector under this section shall amount to delivery of possession to the Corporation. (5) Without prejudice to the provisions of the foregoing sub-sections any person referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to account to the Corporation for any such property or asset, book of account, register or document which he has failed to deliver to the Collector.

Source: IndiaCode Portal, Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. Open on India Code Check against the official text before relying on it.

Cases citing this section

No order or office report we hold cites this section yet.

Source: Order and office-report PDFs whose text cites the section, read by rule (document_citations); each case through its orders and office reports that carry the PDF