Where any claim or objection has been preferred against the attachment of any property under Section 68 on the ground that such property is not liable to such attachment, the Registrar, or as the case may be, his nominee shall investigate into the claim or objection and dispose it of on merits:
Provided that no such investigation shall be made when the Registrar or his nominee considers that the claim or objection is frivolous.
52. Procedure for the custody of property attached under Section
6.—(1) Where the property to be attached is movable property, other than agricultural produce in the possession of the debtor, the attachment shall be made by actual seizure and the attaching officer shall keep the property in his own custody or in the custody of one of his subordinates, or of a Receiver, if one is appointed under sub-rule (2) and, shall be responsible for the due custody thereof:
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Provided that, when the property seized is subject to speedy and natural decay, or when the expenses of keeping it in custody is likely to exceed its value, the attaching officer may sell it at once.
(2) Where it appears to the officer ordering conditional attachment under Section 68 to be just and convenient, he may appoint a Receiver for the custody of the movable property attached under that Section and his duties and liabilities shall be identical with those of a Receiver appointed under Order XL in the First Schedule to the Code of Civil Procedure,1908.
(3) (i) Where the property to be attached is immovable, the attachment shall be made by an order prohibiting the debtor from transferring or charging the property in any way, and all persons from taking any benefit from such transfer or charge.
(ii) The order shall be proclaimed at some places on, or adjacent, to such property by beat of drums or other customary mode, and a copy of the order shall be fixed on a conspicuous part of the property and upon conspicuous part of the village chavadi and where the property is land paying revenue to the State Government also, in the office of the Collector of the district, the Revenue Divisional Officer and Tahsildar within whose jurisdiction the property is situated.