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Summary eviction, forfeiture and fine :– (1) Any person unauthorisedly occupying land for which he is liable to pay assessment under Sec. 4 shall be summarily evicted by the 1[Tahasildar] and any crop or other product raised on the land, any encroachments such as a building, other construction or anything deposited thereon shall be liable to forfeiture: Provided that in case of said encroachments. 2[the Tahasildar] shall give reasonable notice to remove the same. 2[(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in Sub-Sec. (1)– (a) where any land is in the unauthorised occupation of a landless person, the Tahsildar may instead of evicting such person from the land in his authorised occupation, settle the same with him, so however, the land so settled with him together with the land excluding homestead, if any owned by him and the lands owned by all the members of his family who are living with him in common mess, shall, on no account, exceed one standard acre and shall not include more than one-tenth of an acre of land which is being utilised or can be utilised for purposes of homestead; and (b) where any land is in the unauthorised occupation of a homesteadless person, which is being utilised by him as homestead, the Tahasildar shall, instead of evicting such person, settle the same with him, so however, that the land so settled with him shall not exceed one-tenth of an acre." 3[Provided that no such settlement shall be made if the land belongs to any of the following categories namely]: (a) lands recorded as Gochar, Rakhit, or Sarbasadharan in any record-of-rights prepared under any law; (b) lands which are– (i) set apart for the common use of villages;