Release from requisition

(1) When any premises requisitioned under section 160-A are released from requisition, the possession thereof shall be delivered to the person from whom possession was taken at the time when the premises were requisitioned, or if no such person is available, to the person whom the State Government considers to be the owner of such premises, and such delivery of possession shall be a full discharge of the State Government from all liabilities in respect of such delivery, but shall not prejudice any rights in respect of the premises which any other person may be entitled by due process of law to enforce against the person to whom possession of the premises is so delivered. (2) Where the person to whom the possession of any premises requisitioned under section 160-A is to be delivered under sub-section (1) cannot be found or is not readily ascertainable or has no agent or any other person empowered to accept delivery on his behalf, the State Government shall cause a notice declaring that such premises are released from requisition to be affixed on some conspicuous part of such premises and the notice shall be published in the Official Gazette. (3) When the notice referred to in sub-section (2) is published in the Official Gazette, the premises specified in such notice shall cease to be subject to such requisition on and from the date of such publication and shall be deemed to have been delivered to the person who is entitled to possession thereof, and the State Government shall not be liable for any compensation or other claim in respect of such premises for any period after the said date.