Simultaneous issue of summons for service by post in addition to personal service

(1) The Court shall, in addition to, and simultaneously with, the issue of summons for service in the manner provided in rules 9 to 19 (both inclusive), also direct the summons to be served by registered post with acknowledgment due addressed to the defendant or his agent empowered to accept the service at the place where the defendant or his agent actually and voluntarily resides or carries on business or personally works for gain:

Provided that nothing in this sub-rule shall require the Court to issue a summons for service by registered post where, in the circumstances of the case, the Court considers it unnecessary.

(2) When an acknowledgment is purporting to be signed by the defendant or his agent is received by the Court or the postal article containing the summons is received back by the Court with an endorsement purporting to have been made by a postal employee to the effect that the defendant or his agent had refused to take delivery of the postal article containing the summons when tendered to him, the Court issuing the summons shall declare that the summons had been duly served on the defendant:

Provided that where the summons was properly addressed, pre-paid and duly sent by registered post with acknowledgment due, the declaration referred to in this sub-rule may be made not-withstanding the fact that the acknowledgment having been lost or mislaid or for any other reason, has not been received by the court within thirty days from the date of issue of the summons.]