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 Rh 32. Any person authorised in this behalf by the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, may enter into any immovable property and inspect such property for the purpose of determining whether, and if so in what manner, an order under section 29 should be made in relation to such property or with a view to securing compliance with any order made under that section.

33. (1) Any person remaining in possession of any requisitioned property in contravention of any order made under section 29 may be summarily evicted from the property by any officer empowered in this behalf by the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be.

(2) Any officer so empowered may, after giving to any woman not appearing in public reasonable warning and facility to withdraw, remove or open any lock or bolt or break open any door of any building or do any other act necessary for effecting such eviction.

34. If any person contravenes any order made under section 29 or section 31, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.

35. (1) Where any property requisitioned under section 29 is to be released from such requisition, the Government by which or under whose authority the property was requisitioned or any person generally or specially authorised by it in this behalf may, after such inquiry, if any, as it or he may in any case, consider necessary to make or cause to be made, specify by order in writing the person to whom possession of the property shall be given and such possession shall, as far as practicable, be given to the person who appears to the Government or, as the case may be, the person authorised as aforesaid, to be entitled to the possession of the property at the time such order is made.

(2) The delivery of possession of the property to the person specified in the order under sub-section (1) shall be a full discharge of the Government from all liabilities in respect of the property, but shall not prejudice any rights In respect of the property which any other person may be entitled by due process of law to enforce against the person to whom possession of the property is delivered.

36. (1) Any immovable property which has been requisitioned under section 29 may, in the manner hereinafter provided, be acquired in the circumstances and by the Government specified below, namely:—
 * (a) where any works have, during the period of requisition, been constructed on, in or over the property wholly or partly at the expense of any Government, the property may be acquired