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Subject to the provisions of * [section 562] of the 1 [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974)], a Panchayati Adalat may, instead of passing sentence, discharge, after due admonition an offender who in its opinion was on the date of the commission of offence not over 2 [eighteen years of age].