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Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, there shall be no appeal by a convicted person in any case tried by a Nyaya Panchayat: Provided that the District Magistrate or Subdivisional Magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Nyaya Panchayat is situate, i£ satis:fied that failure of justice has occurred, may, of his own motion, or on the application of any of the parties concerned, made within thirty <lays from the elate of the order of the yaya Panchayat, cancel or modify any order of conviction or of compensation made by a yaya Panchayat or direct the retrial of an case by a court of competent jurisdiction subordinate to him, not- withstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) of sec- tion 71.