law: Hire-Purchase Act, 1972
  17. Rights of hirer in case of seizure of
  
  goods by owner .-
  (1) Where the owner seizes under clause (c) of
  
  section 19 the goods let under a hire-purchase agreement, the hirer may recover
  
  from the owner the amount, if any, by which the hirer-purchase price falls
  
  short of the aggregate of the following amount, namely :- the amounts paid in
  
  respect of the hire-purchase price up to the date of seizure.
  The value of the goods on the date of seizure.
  
  
  For purposes of this section, the value of any
  
  goods on the date of seizure is the best price that can be reasonably contained
  
  for the goods by the owner on that date less the aggregate of the following
  
  amounts, namely :- The reasonable expenses incurred by the owner for seizing
  
  the goods, any amount reasonably expended by the owner on the storage, repairs
  
  or maintenance of the goods.
  (whether or not the goods have subsequently
  
  been sold or otherwise disposed of by the owner) the reasonable expenses of
  
  selling or otherwise disposing of the goods, and the amounts spent by the owner
  
  for payment of arrears of taxes and other dues which are payable in relation to
  
  the goods under any law for the time being in force and which the hirer was
  
  liable to pay.
  If the owner fails to pay the amount due form
  
  him under the provisions of this section or any portion of such amount, to the
  
  hirer within a period of thirty days form the date of notice for the payment of
  
  the said amounts is served on him by the hirer the owner shall be liable to pay
  
  interest on such amount at the rate of twelve per cent, per annum from the date
  
  of expiry of the said period of thirty days.
  Where the owner has sold the goods seized by
  
  him the onus of proving that the price obtaining by him for the goods was the
  
  best price that could be reasonably obtained by him on the date of seizure
  
  shall lie upon him.