Section 57: Claim for more compensation

57. Claim for more compensation (1) Where— (a) no agreement is reached as to the amount of compensation; (b) an objection is made under section 56, the owner, Curator or any person referred to in that section, may within 2 months after service of the notice or the publication of the advertisement, claim before— (i) the Court of the district in which the property is situate a sum higher than the amount offered if the claim does not exceed that sum by 1,000 rupees; and (ii) the Supreme Court if the claim exceeds that sum by more than 1,000 rupees. (2) Where no claim is entered within the period referred to under subsection (1), the compensation shall be deemed to be finally assessed at the sum stated in the notice referred to in section 54, and notice of the final assessment, if it exceeds 200 rupees, shall be published in the Gazette and in 2 daily newspapers, as nearly as may be in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule.