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D0 & panch: 1% Panchayat shall report the fact fo the failure of the accused tg y, the , foun’, Magistrate. appear. neare istrate shall issue a we Magistrate hall issue a warrant for the arrest 9) The | r the accused and shall direct by endorsement on the nt that if such person executes a bond with sufficient curetics for his attendance before himself in the manner sure ded by section 76 of the Code of Criminal Procedure rovier shall be released from custody. Oo 1808: 3) When the accused appears before th agistr: Cr girect him to execute a bond with or without ies to appear before the ** * Panchayats, Sarpanch Panch on such date as he may direct and thereafter ntinue to appear before the 1* * Panchayat as h person or the i* * Panchayat. (4) On his failure to execute such bond the Magistrate shall order that the accused be produced in custody before the person mentioned 1n sub-section (3) *[or] the le & Panchayat on such date not more than fifteen days later as he may direct. (5) If the accused fails to appeat before the Panchayat after executing a bond under sub-section (3) the Panchayat shall report ihe fact to the Magistrate before whom the such Magistrate shall proceed bond was executed, and L in accordance with the provisions of Chapter XLII 0: the "oe Code of Criminal Procedure, | . . rompt dispe | 47, (1) The ** * Panchayat shall, if possible, try Prom ease the day on which the a criminal case and pass orders on ch the accused appears and, if that is not possible, may; if he ts ‘re him to execute @ bond with or not already on bail, requi te at no without sureties for a sum not exceeding five hundre rupees to appear before the !* * Panchayal on any subsequent day or days to which the trial may be adjournes- forfeited shall be such bond if if it were 4 fine (2) The amount of « * Panchayat as recoverable by the J XLI of 1953, sections 13 (and 14. 1The word “Gram” omitted by Punjab Act No. 1Substituted for the word “of” by section 13 (i), ibid. © Scanned with OKEN Scanner * = LIRAM PANCHAYAT (3) Ifthe Vecused lails to Cxecute sub-section (1) the 1* , Magistrate of € rec : ‘nchayat Shall: ireg the fact and the date fixed fost orm oy hearing ; and the Magistrate Shall under Subssections (2), (3 Proceeq ,. the , ne » (3) and (4) of's 48, (7) Al® x Panchayat m Punishment, ay on “ONViction (2) sentence the “Ccused to one hundred rupees or if mya enhan ed ein,’ under his Act, to 4 € not exceed Powe | hundred rupees or do le the Valu ing tw, damage or loss Caused by this Act Whee th, IS greater - > UCheye Provided that mu: 0 fine Shall €xceed n fine Prescribed by law for that of . (5) discharge him after due admonition ; | C) require thi (c) : a ro hi Sxecute withj T Suardian to execute within Such time as the 1* anchayat may fix, a bond, with or without Sureties of an amount undred Tupees, binding himself to prevent such : : faken under clauses (c) and (d) of the f, Oregoing Sub-section if forfeited, shall be recoverable by the 1* ‘% anchayat as if it were a fine imposed by j i or his father or his be punishable with one hundred rupees, —___ Ge “Gram” Omitted by Punjab Act No. XLI of 1953, 1The word © Scanned with OKEN Scanner Act IV] GRAM PANCHA YAT 173 rere a * Panchayat imposes a fi 3) Mons of this section and such a fine is not nid (ne pro it shall record an order declaring the am Mitt of rege ap osed and that it has not been paid and ara fine Jd the sane to the nearest *[Judicial ’Mapistr te fore’ pall sroceed 10 exccute it as if il were an order sassed who rimse (, and such *[ Judicial Magistrate] m Pa he accused (0 imprisonment in default of pancho he ortted-— whole or any part of the fine q) in defraying expenses properly in (a) oe py the complainant oper curred in the compensation for any material dama e loss caused by the offence committed. ee (2) If the ** * * Panchayat considers that a case is false OT frivolous or vexatious it may cal] upon the com- plainant to show cause why he should not pay compensa- tion to the accused. The!* * * Panchayat shall record and consider any cause which the complainant may show and if it is satisfied that the case was false, frivolous or vexatious, may, for reasons to be recorded, direct that compensation not exceeding rupees fifty, shall be paid py the complainant to the accused.