law: Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958
  
  8.Application of endowment to repair a protected monument.- 
  (1) If any owner or other person competent to
  
  enter into an agreement under section 6 for the maintenance of a protected monument
  
  refuses or fails to enter into such an agreement, and if any endowment has been
  
  created for the purpose of keeping such monument in repair or for that purpose
  
  among other, the Central Government may institute a suit in the court of the
  
  district judge, or, if the estimated cost of repairing the monument does not
  
  exceed one thousand rupees, may make an application to the district judge, for
  
  the proper application of such endowment or part thereof.
  (2) On the hearing of an application under sub-section (1), the district judge
  
  may summon and examine the owner and any person whose evidence appears to him
  
  necessary and may pass an order for the proper application of the endowment or
  
  of any part thereof, and any such order may be executed as if it were a decree
  
  of a civil court.