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(1) Any Magistrate before whom a complaint or report by the police of any offence triable by a Panchayati Adalat is brought or who takes cognizance of any such offence upon his knowledge or suspicion shall transfer the proceedings to a Panchayati Adalat of competent jurisdiction. (2) Any Judicial Magistrate may, on an application made by any aggrieved party to suit or case pending before a Panchayati Adalat, after satisfying himself, and recording the reasons therefor, transfer the same to any other nearest Panchayati Adalat. (3) On the transfer of such suit or case, the Panchayati Adalat to which it is transferred shall hear such suit or case, as if the same was instituted before it.