Section 57:
Provision by Court for incumbrances and sale freed therefrom.
(a) Where immoveable
property subject to any incumbrance, whether immediately payable or not, is sold by the Court or in
execution of a decree, or out of Court, the Court may, if it thinks fit, on the application of any party
to the sale, direct or allow payment into Court,--
(1) in case of an annual or monthly sum charged on the property, or of a capital sum charged on a
determinable interest in the property,--of such amount as, when invested in securities of the Central
Government, the Court considers will be sufficient, by means of the interest thereof, to keep down or
otherwise provide for that charge, and
(2) in any other case of a capital sum charged on the property,--of the amount sufficient to meet
the incumbrance and any interest due thereon.
But in either case there shall also be paid into Court such additional amount -
as the Court
considers will be sufficient to meet the contingency of further costs, expenses and interest, and any
other contingency, except depreciation of investments, not exceeding one -tenth part of the original
amount to be paid in, unless the Court for special reasons (which it shall record) thinks fit to
require a larger additional amount.
(b) Thereupon the Court may, if it thinks fit, and after notice to the incumbrance, unless the
Court, for reasons to be recorded in writing, thinks fit to dispense with such notice, declare the
property to be freed from the incumbrance, and make any order for conveyance, or vesting order, proper for giving effect to the sale, and give directions for the retention and investment of the
money in Court.
(c) After notice served on the persons interested in or entitled to the money or fund in
Court. the Court may direct payment or transfer thereof to the persons entitled to receive or
give a discharge for the same, and generally may give directions respecting the application or
distribution of the capital or income thereof.
(d) An appeal shall lie from any declaration, order or direction under this section as if the same were
a decree.
(e) In this section "Court" means (1) a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or
extraordinary original civil jurisdiction, (2) the Court of a District Judge within the local limits
of whose jurisdiction the property or any part thereof is situate, (3) any other Court which the
State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, decla re to be
competent to exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this section.