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Mode of service of summons.- (1) A summons issued by a Revenue Officer or Revenue Court, if practicable, be served (a) per- sonally on the person to whom it is addressed, or failing him on (b) his recognized agent on (c) an adult male member of his family who is residing with him. (2) If service cannot be so made, or if acceptance of service so made is refused, the summons may be served by posting a copy thereof at usual or last known place of residence of the person to whom it is addressed, or, if that person does not reside in the district in which the Revenue Officer is employed or the Revenue Court is held and the case to which the summons relates has reference 10 land in that district then by pasting a copy of the summons on some conspicuous place in or near the as late wherein the land is situate. THE PUNJAB TENANCY ACT, 1887 53 Sections:- 91 - 93 (3) If the summons relates to a case in which persons having the same interest are so numerous that personal service on all of them is not rea- sonably practicable, it may, if the Revenue Officer or Revenue Court so directs, be served by delivery of a copy thereof to such of those persons as the Officer or Court nominates in this behalf and by proclamation of the contents thereof for the information of the other persons interested. (4) A summons may if the Revenue Officer or Revenue Court so diredts be served on the persons named therein, either in addition to, or in substitution for, any other mode of service, by forwarding the summons by post in a letter addressed to the person and registered under Part III of the Indian Post Office Act, 1886, (See now the Indian Post OfficeAct, 1896 (6 of 1898) (XIV of 1866). (5) When a summons is so forwarded in a letter and it is proved that the letter was properly addressed and duly posted and registered, the Of- ficer or Court may presume that the summons was served at the time when the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of posts. Case Law Section 90—Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953—Punjab Security of Land Tenures Rules, 1956, Rules 6(7)—Declaration of surplus area—Failure to served notice—Whether a transferee could claim a right to include his land in the permissible area of the Vendor/big landowner? A transferee from a big land-owner before the surplus area case is concluded is mandatorily required to be served with a notice. ; Smt. Ranjeet Kaur v. State of Haryana : 2006(1) ALL INDIA LAND LAWS REPORTER (Pb. & Hry.) 211