Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
In some Courts attached properties, or properties brought by Bailiffs or produced by parties, remain unclaimed for a long time. In some cases the parties or their heirs are not known and in some parts do not take steps to claim their properties even though they are ordered by the Court and are served with notices to do so. In all such cases a notice should be issued to the person entitled to the property, if he can be traced, to take it back within three months from the date of receipt of the notice. If the property is not taken back by him within the prescribed period of three month, or if such person is untraceable, sanction of the District Judge should be obtained for its sale and the property should then be sold by public auction. The sale of such property should be held by issuing a proclamation which should be affixed to some conspicuous part of the place where the property is situated or in the Chavdi of the village, and on the Notice Board of the Court. Where, the value of the property is large, the proclamation should, in the discretion of the Court, also be published in a newspaper. The sale proceeds, thus realised, after deduction of the expenses incurred should be deposited in the Civil Court Deposit in the name of the person entitled to the property, for the eventual benefit of the person who may duly establish his claim to the property to the