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(1) Subject to the provisions of section 104, a Nyaya Panchayat may, by summons, send for any person to appear and give evidence or to produce or cause the pro- duction of any document : Provided that no person who is exempt from personal appearance in court under sub-section (1) of section 133 of the Code of Civil Procedure) 1908, slrnll be required to appear Aot V in person before a Nyaya Panchayat. mos. (2) A Iyaya Panchayat shall refuse to summon a witness or to enforce a summons already issued .against a witness, where, in the opinion of the yaya Panclyat, the attendance of the ,vitness cannot be procured without an amount of delay, expense or inconvenience which, ruder the cucumstances of the case, would he unreasonable. (3) A ayaa Panchaat shall not require any person living outside the limits of the A.nchal Panchayat concerned tu give evidence, unless such a sum of money as may apJ)ear to the Nyaya Panchaywt, to be sufficient to defray the travelling and other expenses of such person in passing to and from the Naya Panchaayat and for one clay's attendance, is deposited in the yaya Panchayat by the party who cites such person as his witness. (4) If any person whom a yaya Panchayat summons by written order to appear or give evidence, or to produce any document before it fails, without lawful excuse, to obey such summons the ayaya Panchagyat may take cognizance of such offence and may sentence any person convctea thereof to a :fine not' exceeding twenty-five rupees. Appear-