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Exclusion of Gram Panchayat jurisdiction.— No suit shall lie in a Gram Panchayat — (a) on a balance of a partnership account; (b) for a share or a part of share under an intestacy or for a legacy or part of legacy under a Will; (c) by or against the Central Government or a State Government or local authority or a public servant or a Gram Panchayat or Market Committee constituted under the Punjab Agricultural Produce 66 we _ Markets Act, 1961 or any other law for the tim (d) (e) ig) THE PUNJAB PANCHAYAT! RAJ ACT, 1994 e being in force, or when any such party is, in the opinion of the Gram Panchayat a necessary party, by or against a minor or a person of unsound mind or when any such person is in the opinion of the Gram Panchayat a necessary party; against an insolvent for a claim pertaining to the time prior to the admission of his insolvency petition, an account of any dispute or matter regarding which any suit or application may be made in a revenue court as defined in the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 except as provided by clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 56; in which the matter directly and substantially in issue is pending for decision or has been heard and finally decided by a Court of competent jurisdiction in a former suit between the same parties or those under whom they claim.