Whenever any person not subject to the jurisdiction of any of the courts mentioned in Sec. 37 is possessed of property and is alleged to be a lunatic the District Court, within whose jurisdiction such person is residing may, upon application, by order direct an inquisition for the purpose of ascertaining whether such person is of unsound mind and incapable of managing himself and his affairs.
63. Application by whom to be made.-—(I) Application for such inquisition may be made by any relative of the alleged lunatic or by any public Curator appointed under the Succession (Property Protection) Act, 1841 (19 of 1841)2 (hereinafter referred to as the Curator), or by the Government pleader, as defined in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), or if the property of the alleged lunatic consists in whole or in part of land or any interest in land, by the Collector of the District in which it is situate.
(2) If the property or any part thereof is of such a. description that it would by the law in force in any State where such property is situate subject the proprietor, if disqualified, to the jurisdiction of the Court of Wards, the application may be by Collector on behalf of the Court of Wards.