Rule 16 Order V of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Person served to sign acknowledgement"
Where the serving officer delivers or tenders a copy of the summons to the defendant personally, or to an agent or other person on his behalf, he shall require the signature of the person to whom the copy is so delivered or tendered to an acknowledgement of service endorsed on the original summons.
Rule 17 Order V of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Procedure when defendant refuses to accept service, or cannot he found"
Where the defendant or his agent or such other person as aforesaid refuses to sign the acknowledgement, or where the serving officer, after using all due and reasonable diligence, cannot find the defendant, who is absent from his residence at the time when service is sought to be effected on him at his residence and there is no likelihood of his being found at the residence within a reasonable time and there is no agent empowered to accept service of the summons on his behalf, nor any other person on whom service can be made, the serving officer shall affix a copy of the summons on the outer door or some other conspicuous part of the house in which the defendant ordinarily resides or carries on business or personally works for gain, and shall then return the original to the Court from which it was issued, with a report endorsed thereon or annexed thereto stating that he has so affixed the copy, the circumstances under which he did so, and the name and address of the person (if any) by whom the house was identified and in whose presence the copy was affixed.
Rule 18 Order V of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Endorsement
of time and manner of service"
The serving officer shall, in all cases in which the summons
has been served under rule 16, endorse or annex, or cause to
be endorsed or annexed, on or to the original summons, a
return stating the time when and the manner in which the
summons was served, and the name and address of the person
(if any) identifying the person served and witnessing the
delivery or tender of the summons.
Rule 19 Order V of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Examination of serving officer"
Where a summons is returned under rule 17, the Court shall, if the return under that rule has not been verified by the affidavit of the serving officer, and may, if it has been so verified, examine the serving officer on oath, or cause him to be so examined by another Court, touching his proceedings, and may make such further enquiry in the matter as it thinks fit; and shall either declare that the summons has been duly served or order such service as it thinks fit.
Rule 19A Order V of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "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, acknowledgement
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 acknowledgement 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,
prepaid and duly sent by registered post, acknowledgement
due, the declaration referred to in this sub-rule shall be
made notwithstanding the fact that the acknowledgement
having been lost or mislaid, or for other reason, has been
received by the Court within thirty days from the date of
the issue of the summons.
Rule 20 Order V of Code of Civil Procedure 1908 "Substituted services"
(1) Where the Court is satisfied that there is reason to
believe that the defendant is keeping out of the way for the
purpose of avoiding service, or that for any other reason
the summons cannot be served in the ordinary way, the Court
shall order the summons to be served by affixing a copy
thereof in some conspicuous place in the Court-house, and
also upon some conspicuous part of the house (if any) in
which the defendant is known to have last resided or carried
on business or personally worked for gain, or in such other
manner as the Court thinks fit.
(1A) Where the Court acting under sub-rule (1) orders
service by an advertisement in a newspaper, the newspaper
shall be a daily newspaper circulating in the locality in
which the defendant is last known to have actually and
voluntarily resided, carried on business or personally
worked for gain.
(2) Effect of substituted service-Service substituted by
order of the Court shall be as effectual as if it had been
made on the defendant personally.
(3) Where service substituted, time for appearance to he
fixed -Where service is substituted by order of the Court,
the Court shall fix such time for the appearance of the
defendant as the case may require.