{ "id": 27043, "slug": "delhi-panchayat-raj-act-1954", "title": "Delhi Panchayat Raj Act, 1954", "short_title": "Delhi Panchayat Raj Act, 1954", "act_number": "(Act No. 3 of 1955)", "act_year": 1954, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Delhi", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "Delhi Panchayat Raj Act, 1954", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "Explanation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) \"Adult\" means a person who has completed his twenty-first year;\n(2) \"Bhumidhar\" and \"Asami\" shall hear the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954;\n(3) \"building\" means any shop, house, hut, out-house, estate or stable whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise or whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, thatch, metal or any other material whatever and includes a wall and a well:\n(4) \"bye-laws\" means bye-laws made by the Gaon Panchayat under this Act.\n(5) \"Chief Commissioner\" means the Chief Commissioner of Delhi;\n(6) \"circle\" means the area within which a Circle Panchayat exercises jurisdiction under Section 44;\n(7) \"Circle Panchayat\" means the panel of Circle Panchayat established under Section 44;\n(8) [x x x]\n(9) \"Gaon Sabha\", \"Gaon Sabha Area\" and \"Gaon Sabha Area Fund\" means the \"Gaon Sabha\", Gaon Sabha Area\" and Gaon Sabha Area Fund\" constituted or established under the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954;\n(10) \"joint electorate system\" means a system under which the electors belonging to all communities vote jointly as prescribed and not as electors of separate communities;\n(11) \"Panchayati Adalat\" means a Panchayati Adalat established under [Section 50] and includes a bench thereof;\n(12) \"prescribed\" means [prescribed by rules made under this Act];\n(13) \"prescribed authority\" means any authority to be notified as such by the Chief Commissioner whether generally or for any particular purpose;\n(14) \"proceeding\" means a proceeding specified under Section 54;\n(15) \"public land or common land\" means that the land which is not in exclusive use of any individual or family but is in common use of villagers and includes a land entered as Shamilat deh in revenue records;\n(16) \"public servant\" means a public servant as defined in Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860;\n(17) \"public street\" means any road, street, bridge, lane, square, courtyard, alley or passage which the public has a right to pass along, and includes on either side the drains or gutters and the land up to the defined boundary of any abutting property notwithstanding any projection over such land of any verandah or other superstructure;\n(18) \"rules\" means rules made under this Act;\n(19) \"Senior Sub-Judge\" [Additional District Magistrate] and \"Revenue Assistant\" means respectively the \"Senior Sub-Judge\", [\"Additional District Magistrate\"] and \" Revenue Assistant\" of Delhi;\n(20) \"Suit\" means a civil triable by a Panchayati Adalat;\n(21) \"village\" means any local area recorded as a village in the revenue records of the Union territory.\n(22) words and expressions 'degree', 'decree holder', Judgment debtor', 'legal representative', and 'moveable property' have the same meaning as in Section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure 1898;\n(23) words and expressions not defined in this Act used in the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, shall have the same meaning assigned to them in the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954.\nChapter 2\nGaon Sabha and Gaon Sabha Area", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Changes in Gaon Sabha Area.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Membership of Gaon Sabha.", "chapter": null, "content": "5.\n6.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Pradhan and Up-Pradhan of a Gaon Panchayat to be the Pradhan and Up- Pradhan of the Gaon Sabha.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Disqualification or defect on appointment or nomination not to vitiate act or proceeding.", "chapter": null, "content": "9.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Removal of difficulty in establishment of Gaon Sabha and in the working of a Gaon Panchayat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Meetings and functions of Gaon Sabha.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Report of Business submitted by Pradhan.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter 3\nGaon Panchayat", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Gaon Panchayat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Term of Office of a Pradhan or Up-Pradhan.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Removal of Pradhan or Up-Pradhan.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Patwari to assist in the performance of Land Management work of a Gaon Panchayat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Register of the Members of Gaon Panchayat and its Functionaries.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter 4\nPowers, Duties, Functions and Administration of Gaon Panchayats", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Duties and Functions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) framing programmes of production for the villages;\n(b) framing budget of requirements for supplies and finance needed for carrying out the programmes;\n(c) reclamation of waste land and bringing waste land under cultivation;\n(d) [***]\n(e) [***]\n(f) [***]\n(g) upkeep, protection and supervision of any buildings or other property which may belong to the Gaon Sabha or which may be transferred to it for management;\n(h) registering births, deaths and marriages;\n(i) removal of encroachments on public streets, public places and property vested in the Gaon Sabha;\n(j) regulating places for the disposal of the dead bodies of human beings and animals and of other offensive matter;\n(k) regulations of melas, markets and huts within its area, except those managed by the Government.\n(l) [***]\n(m) establishment, management and care of common grazing grounds, and land for the common benefit of the persons residing within its jurisdiction;\n(n) [***]\n(o) [***]\n(p) assisting the development of agriculture, commerce and industry;\n(q) rendering assistance in extinguishing fire and protecting life and property when fire occurs;\n(r) the administration of [justice] to the extent permitted in this Act and the election of the panches on the panel of the Circle Panchayat according to the provisions of this Act and rules made thereunder;\n(s) the maintenance of such records relating to cattle census, population census and other statistics may be prescribed;\n(t) [***]\n(u) allotment of places for storing manure;\n(v) fulfilling any other obligation imposed by any other law on a Gaon Sabha.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Discretionary Functions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) acting as a channel through which Government's assistance reaches the village;\n(b) securing minimum standards of cultivation to be observed in the village with a view to increasing production;\n(c) making arrangements for co-operative managements of land and other resources in the village;\n(d) planting and maintaining trees by the sides of public streets and in other public places;\n(e) the improved breeding and medical treatment of cattle and prevention of disease in them;\n(f) filling in of insanitary depressions and levelling of land;\n(g) organizing, subject to rules prescribed a village volunteer force for watch and word, for assisting Gaon Sabha and Panchayat Adalat in the discharge of their functions and for the service of summons and notices issued by them;\n(h) assisting and advising agriculturists in the obtaining and distribution among them of Government loans and in the repayment thereof, in the liquidation of old debts and generally in the establishment of sound credit system according to law;\n(i) development of co-operation and establishment of improved seed and implement stores and production and use of improved seeds;\n(j) relief against famine or other calamity;\n(k) making representation to the District Board for performance by it of such functions in relation to the area within the jurisdiction of the Gaon Sabha as are beyond the powers of the Gaon Sabha;\n(l) extension of the abadi;\n(m) establishment and maintenance of libraries or reading rooms;\n(n) establishment and maintenance of akharas or clubs or other places for recreation and games;\n(o) [regulating the use of manure and fertilizers;]\n(p) prohibition or regulating the curing, tanning and dyeing of skins within 220 years of the abadi;\n(q) setting up organisations to promote goodwill and social harmony between different communities;\n(r) public radio sets and gramophones;\n(s) any other measure of public utility calculated to promote the moral and material well-being or convenience of the villagers;\n(t) with the previous sanction of the District Board the doing of anything which falls within the functions of the District Board for the benefit of the persons living within the jurisdiction of the Gaon Sabha; and\n(u) the doing of anything the expenditure on which is declared by the Chief Commissioner or by the prescribed authority with the sanction of the Chief Commissioner to be an appropriate charge on the Gaon Sabha Area Fund.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Power of Gaon Panchayat as to Public Streets, waterways and other matters.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) construct new bridges or culverts;\n(b) divert, discontinue or close any public street, culvert or bridge;\n(c) widen, open, enlarge or otherwise improve any public street, culvert or bridge within minimum damage to the neighbouring fields;\n(d) deepen or otherwise improve waterways;\n(e) with the sanction of the prescribed authority and where a canal exists under the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873, with the sanction also of such officer of the Irrigation Department as the Chief Commissioner may prescribe, undertake small irrigation projects;\n(f) cut any hedge or branch of any tree projecting on a public street;\n(g) notify the setting apart of any public water course for drinking or culinary purposes, and prohibit bathing, washing of clothes and animals or doing of other acts likely to pollute the course so set apart;\n21.\n22.\n23.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. Assistance to Government Servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Representations by Gaon Panchayats.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. Power to enquire and report about the misconduct of certain officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 }, { "number": "27", "title": "27. Power to contract for collection of taxes and other dues.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 20 }, { "number": "28", "title": "28. Right of individual members.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 21 }, { "number": "29", "title": "29. Penalty for causing loss, waste or misappropriation of money or property of the Gaon Sabha.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 22 }, { "number": "30", "title": "30. Members and servants to be public servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 23 }, { "number": "31", "title": "31. Committee.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 24 }, { "number": "32", "title": "32. Delegation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 25 }, { "number": "33", "title": "33. Gaon Sabha Area Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the proceeds of any tax imposed under this Act;\n(b) all sums handed over the Government to the Gaon Sabha;\n(c) the balance, if any, standing to the credit of the village Panchayat previously in existence under the Punjab Village Panchayat Act, 1939, as in force in the State;\n(d) all sums ordered by a court to be placed to the credit of the Gaon Sabha Area Fund;\n(e) all sums received under Section 97;\n(f) the sale-proceeds of all dust, dirt, dung or refuse including the dead bodies of animals, collected by the servant of the Gaon Sabha;\n(g) such portion of the rent or other proceeds of nazul property as the Chief Commissioner direct to be placed to the credit of the Gaon Sabha Area Fund;\n(h) sums contributed to the Gaon Sabha Area Fund by the District Board or any other local authority;\n(i) all sums received by way of loan or gift;\n(j) such other sums as may be assigned to the Gaon Sabha Area Fund by any special or general order of the Chief Commissioner;\n(k) all sums received by the Gaon Panchayat from any individual or corporation or the Government under Section 27 or any other law;\n(l) all sums (generally known as Panjotra) received by Gaon Panchayat as collection charges for collection of land revenue under Section 134 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954.\nChapter 5\nAcquisition of Land, Gaon Sabha Area Fund and Property", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 26 }, { "number": "34", "title": "34. Power to acquire Land.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 27 }, { "number": "35", "title": "35. Property vested in Gaon Sabha.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 28 }, { "number": "36", "title": "36. Disposal of claims.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 29 }, { "number": "37", "title": "37. Power to borrow.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 30 }, { "number": "38", "title": "38. Voluntary contribution of physical labour by Gaon Sabha members.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 31 }, { "number": "39", "title": "39. Imposition of taxes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) a tax on the rent payable by an Asami under the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, no exceeding half an anna in a rupee of such rent, the tax aforesaid being payable by the person or persons severally or jointly in cultivatory possession of such lands.\n(ii) a tax on the land revenue payable by a Bhumidhar on account of land held by him, not exceeding one anna in a rupee of such land revenue, the tax aforesaid being payable by the person or persons severally or jointly recorded as Bhumidhar on such land in revenue records.\n[(iii) ***]\n[(iv) ***]", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 32 }, { "number": "40", "title": "40. Collection, recovery, remission and suspension of taxes and dues.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 33 }, { "number": "41", "title": "41. Expenses and realization made by Panchayati Adalat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 34 }, { "number": "42", "title": "42. Audit.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 35 }, { "number": "43", "title": "43. Budget.", "chapter": null, "content": "(b) Every Gaon Panchayat shall be prepare and lay before the rabi meeting of the Gaon Sabha its report including the account of its actual and expected receipts and expenditure for the year ending on the 31st March last preceding such meeting.\nChapter 6\nCircle Panchayat and Panchayati Adalat", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 36 }, { "number": "44", "title": "44. Circle Panchayat, Sarpanch and Naib Sarpanch.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) unable to read and write Hindi or Urdu; or\n(b) of unsound mind; or\n(c) suffering from leprosy; or\n(d) an undischarged insolvent; or\n(e) a servant of the Government or any local authority; or\n(f) convicted [under the Untouchability (offences) Act, 1955 or] of an offence involving moral turpitude or ordered to give security for good behaviour under Section 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 37 }, { "number": "45", "title": "45. Functions of a Circle Panchayat.", "chapter": null, "content": "A. Obligatory\n1. to take up the development projects of benefits to all or more than one village in the circle, such as roads, seeds stores [***] or irrigation projects.\n2. to undertake and perform the work of any superseded Gaon Sabha during the period of supersession.\n3. to transact any business in which all or more than one of the constituent Gaon Sabhas are jointly interested.\n4. to take action under [Section 34].\nB. Discretionary\n1. the Chief Commissioner may confer of general superintendence and control on the Circle Panchayat, over the constituent Gaon Sabhas and Gaon Panchayats.\n2. the Chief Commissioner may make rules regarding the diversion of a part or percentage of Gaon Sabha Area Funds of the constituent Gaon Sabhas towards the expenses involved in the performance of the aforesaid functions of the Circle Panchayat.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 38 }, { "number": "46", "title": "46. Term of Panches of a Circle Panchayat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 39 }, { "number": "47", "title": "47. Oath of Office.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 40 }, { "number": "48", "title": "48. Resignation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 41 }, { "number": "49", "title": "49. Removal.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 42 }, { "number": "50", "title": "50. Panchayati Adalat and trial in a suit or proceeding.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 43 }, { "number": "51", "title": "51. Absence of a Panch from the bench.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 44 }, { "number": "52", "title": "52. Filling of casual vacancies.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 45 }, { "number": "53", "title": "53. Forum.", "chapter": null, "content": "[53A. Offences triable by Panchayati Adalats.\n(a) offences under Section 140, 160, 172, 174, 179, 269, 277, 279, 283, 285, 286, 289, 290, 294, 323, 334, 336, 341, 352, 356, 357, 358, 374, 379, 403, 411, (where the value of the stolen or misappropriated property in case under Section 379, 403 and 411 does not exceed fifty rupees), 426, 428, 430, 431, 447, 448, 504, 506, 509 and 510 of the Indian Penal Code;\n(b) offences under Section 24 and 26 of the Cattle trespass Act, 1871;\n(c) offences under Section 3, 4, 7 and 12 of the Delhi Public Gambling Act, 1955;\n(d) such other offence under any of the aforesaid enactments or any other enactment punishable with fine only up to a limit of one hundred rupees, as may, by notification in the Official Gazette, be declared by the Chief Commissioner to be triable by a Panchayati Adalat;\n(e) any offence under this Act or any rule made thereunder;\n(f) abetment of any of the foregoing offences;\n(g) an attempts to commit any of the forgoing offences, when such attempts is an offence;\n[53B. Penalties.\n[53C. Certain persons not to be tried by Panchayati Adalat.\n(a) has been previously convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term of three years or more;\n(b) has been previously fined for theft by any Panchayati Adalat;\n(c) has been bound over to be of good behaviour under Section 109 or 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898;\n(d) has been previously convicted under the Public Gambling Act, 1867 or the Delhi Public Gambling Act, 1955; or\n(e) is a public servant.]\n[53D. Summary disposal of Complaint.\n[53E. Compensation to complainants.\n(a) in defraying the expenses properly incurred in the criminal case by the complainant;\n(b) in the payment to any person or compensation for any material loss or injury caused by the offence; or\n(c) in compensating any bona fide purchaser of stolen property for loss of the same where property is restored to the possession of the person entitled thereto", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 46 }, { "number": "53F", "title": "53F. Compensation to the accused.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 47 }, { "number": "53G", "title": "53G. Enquiry into cases forwarded by Magistrates.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 48 }, { "number": "53H", "title": "53H. Recovery of fines and compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 49 }, { "number": "53I", "title": "53I. Contempt of Panchayati Adalat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 50 }, { "number": "53J", "title": "53J. Conviction of a Panchayati Adalat not a previous conviction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 51 }, { "number": "54", "title": "54. Revenue cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 52 }, { "number": "55", "title": "55. Extent of jurisdiction.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a suit for money due on contract, other than a contract in respect of immovable property;\n(b) a suit for the recovery of movable property or for the value thereof;\n(c) a suit for compensation for wrongfully taking or injuring a movable property; or\n(d) a suit for damages caused by cattle trespass.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 53 }, { "number": "56", "title": "56. Extension of jurisdiction by agreement of parties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 54 }, { "number": "57", "title": "57. Exclusion of Circle Panchayat jurisdiction.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) a suit for a balance of partnership account, unless a balance has been struck by the parties or their agents;\n(2) a suit for a share or part of share under an intestacy or for a legacy or part of a legacy under a will;\n(3) a suit by or against the Government or a public servant for acts done in his official capacity;\n(4) a suit by or against a minor or a person of unsound mind;\n(5) a suit cognizable by a revenue court under the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954, except as provided in this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 55 }, { "number": "58", "title": "58. Suits to include the whole claim.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 56 }, { "number": "59", "title": "59. Limitation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 57 }, { "number": "60", "title": "60. Effect of decision by a Panchayati Adalat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 58 }, { "number": "61", "title": "61. Revision.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 59 }, { "number": "62", "title": "62. Res-Judicata.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 60 }, { "number": "63", "title": "63. Concurrent jurisdiction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 61 }, { "number": "64", "title": "64. Institution of suits, criminal case and proceedings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 62 }, { "number": "65", "title": "65. Substance of the application to be recorded in register.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 63 }, { "number": "66", "title": "66. Manner of procedure.", "chapter": null, "content": "[67. Disposal of suits etc. in the absence of the party concerned.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 64 }, { "number": "68", "title": "68. Panchayati Adalat not to revise or alter its decision.", "chapter": null, "content": "[69. Legal practitioner not to appear before Panchayati Adalat.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 65 }, { "number": "70", "title": "70. Appearance in person or by representative.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Panchayati Adalat may in any case dispense with the personal attendance of the accused and permit him to appear by his agent duly authorised in writing.\n(b) the Panchayati Adalat may be its discretion at any state of the proceeding direct the personal attendance of the accused.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 66 }, { "number": "71", "title": "71. Special jurisdiction in matters compromised.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) in the case of a suit, the value thereof does not exceed the pecuniary limits of the appellate jurisdiction of the Senior Sub-Judge;\n(b) in the case of a proceeding, the annual land revenue payable on the land involved in such proceeding does not exceed two hundred rupees;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 67 }, { "number": "72", "title": "72. Procedure and power to ascertain truth.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 68 }, { "number": "73", "title": "73. Majority to prevail.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 69 }, { "number": "74", "title": "74. Transfer application.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 70 }, { "number": "75", "title": "75. Transfer of suit, criminal case or proceeding.", "chapter": null, "content": "[75A. Transfer of cases by the Panchayati Adalat.\n(a) that it has no jurisdiction to try and case pending before it,\n(b) that the offence involved is one for which it cannot award adequate punishment, or\n(c) that the case should otherwise be tried by a court; is shall submit the case to the Senior Sub-Judge, the Additional District Magistrate or the Collector, as the case may be, for transfer to a court of competent jurisdiction and shall give information thereof to the parties concerned.]\n[76. Revision.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 71 }, { "number": "77", "title": "77. Issue of summons to witnesses.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 72 }, { "number": "78", "title": "78. Penalties for failing to appear before a Panchayati Adalat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 73 }, { "number": "79", "title": "79. Dismissal of suit etc.", "chapter": null, "content": "[80. Summons of defendant or accused person.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 74 }, { "number": "81", "title": "81. Issue of warrant.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 75 }, { "number": "82", "title": "82. Payment or adjustment of decree to be recorded.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 76 }, { "number": "83", "title": "83. Execution of decrees.", "chapter": null, "content": "[83A. Suspension of power.\nChapter 7\nExternal Control", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 77 }, { "number": "84", "title": "84. Supervision.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) cause to be inspected any immovable property owned by a Gaon Sabha, used or occupied by a Gaon Panchayat or a Circle Panchayat, or any work in progress under the direction of such Gaon Sabha or Circle Panchayat;\n(b) by an order in writing call for and inspect a book or document in the possession or under the control of a Gaon Panchayat or a Circle Panchayat;\n(c) by an order in writing require a Gaon Panchayat or a Circle Panchayat to furnish such statements, reports or copies of documents, relating to the proceedings or duties of the Gaon Panchayat or Circle Panchayat as he thinks fit;\n(d) record in writing for the consideration of a Gaon Panchayat or a Circle Panchayat any observation which he thinks proper in regard to the proceedings or duties of such Gaon Panchayat or Circle Panchayat; or\n(e) institute any enquiry in respect of any matter relating to a Gaon Sabha, Gaon Panchayat, Circle Panchayat or Panchayati Adalat.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 78 }, { "number": "85", "title": "85. Prohibition of certain proceedings.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 79 }, { "number": "86", "title": "86. Default in the performance of duty.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 80 }, { "number": "87", "title": "87. Appointment in case of default in filling up vacancies on a Circle Panchayat or of a Sarpanch or Naib Sarpanch.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) A Gaon Sabha fails to elect a panch under sub-section (3) of Section 4 or Section 52, or\n(2) a Circle Panchayat fails to elect a Sarpanch or a Naib Sarpanch, under sub-section (5) of Section 44 or Section 52, within the time prescribed, the Chief Commissioner or any officer appointed by him in this behalf may appoint a duly qualified person to hold office as a panch, Sarpanch or a Naib Sarpanch of the Circle Panchayat, as the case may be, and any person so appointed shall hold office as if he had been duly elected under this Act.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 81 }, { "number": "88", "title": "88. Supersession of a Gaon Sabha or a Gaon Panchayat or Circle Panchayat or a Panchayat Adalat.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all members or panches of the Gaon Sabha or the Gaon Panchayat or Circle Panchayat shall be disposed Adalat shall from the date of notification vacate their seats;\n(b) the funds and other property, if any, vested in the Gaon Sabha or Circle Panchayat shall be disposed of in such manner as the Chief Commissioner may direct; and\n(c) the Senior Sub-Judge [The Additional District Magistrate] or the Collector, as the case may be, shall withdraw all [civil, criminal and revenue cases] pending before such Circle Panchayat or Panchayati Adalat and dispose of them in accordance with law.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 82 }, { "number": "89", "title": "89. Delegation of power by the Chief Commissioner.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter 8\nPenalties and Procedure", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 83 }, { "number": "90", "title": "90. Penalties for infringement of the provisions of the Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 84 }, { "number": "91", "title": "91. Infringement of rules and bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 85 }, { "number": "92", "title": "92. Penalty for tampering with the Gaon Sabha 's property.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 86 }, { "number": "93", "title": "93. Disobedience to notice issued.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Gaon Panchayat may cause such work to be executed or such thing to be provided or done, and may recover all expenses incurred by it on such account from the said person in the prescribed manner;\n(b) such person shall also be liable on conviction before a magistrate to a fine which may extend to ten rupees and in case of continuing breach to a further fine which may extend to one rupees for each day after the date of the first conviction during which the offender is proved to have persisted in the offence.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 87 }, { "number": "94", "title": "94. Notice not to be invalid.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 88 }, { "number": "95", "title": "95. Appeals.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 89 }, { "number": "96", "title": "96. Suspension of prosecution in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 90 }, { "number": "97", "title": "97. Power to compound offences.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 91 }, { "number": "98", "title": "98. Entry and inspection.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) except when it is in this Act or rules or bye-laws otherwise expressly provided, no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise, and\n(b) except when it is in this Act or in rules or bye-laws otherwise expressly provided, no building which is used as a human dwelling shall be so entered except with the consent of the occupier thereof and without giving and said occupier not less than four hours previous written notice of the intention to make such entry, and\n(c) sufficient notice shall in every instance be given even when any premises can otherwise be entered without notice to enable the inmates of an apartment appropriated for females to remove to some part of the premises where there privacy shall not be disturbed, and\n(d) due regard shall always be had to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the premises entered.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 92 }, { "number": "99", "title": "99. Suits against Gaon Sabha, Gaon Panchayat or Circle Panchayat or its officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 93 }, { "number": "100", "title": "100. Protection to Gaon Sabha, Gaon Panchayat, Circle Panchayat and Panchayati Adalat.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 94 }, { "number": "101", "title": "101. Dispute between Gaon Panchayats inter se or with other bodies.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter 9\nRules, Bye-Laws and Repeals", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 95 }, { "number": "102", "title": "102. Power to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) any matter for which power to make provision is conferred expressly or by implication on the Chief Commissioner by this Act.\n(ii) the establishment of Circle Panchayats and Panchayati Adalats;\n(iii) the time and place of the meetings of Gaon Sabha and Circle Panchayat, the manner of convening meetings, giving notice thereof and the conduct of proceedings at the meetings;\n(iv) the establishment of committees and the determination of all matters relating to the constitution and procedure of such committees;\n(v) the records and registers that shall be maintained by Gaon Sabha, Gaon Panchayats, Circle Panchayats and Panchayati Adalats and the form in which they are to be;\n(vi) the action to be taken on the occurrence of a vacancy in the Circle Panchayat and Panchayati Adalat;\n(vii) the authority by which dispute in relating to appointments to Circle Panchayat, other committees or Panchayati Adalats may be decided and the procedure to be followed therein;\n(viii) management and regulation of provident fund for servant of Circle Panchayati if the system of provident fund is adopted by any Circle Panchayat;\n[(ix) [****.]\n(x) the establishment, administration and control of libraries, reading rooms, the construction and repairs of building connected therewith and the supply of medicine and medical assistance to the poor inhabitants of the local area of a Gaon Sabha;\n(xi) the discovery, removal and destruction of water hyacinth on any land, premises, or water, the construction offences and barriers for checking its movement and the cost incurred in carrying out such work;\n[(xii) [* * * *] .\n(xiii) the framing of budgets and earmarking funds for specific purposes;\n(xiv) the returns to be submitted by Gaon Panchayats, Circle Panchayats and Panchayati Adalats, the form in which they are to be, the authorities to which and the time when they shall be submitted;\n(xv) the levy of taxes and license fees, the authority by which and the manner in which the taxes may be assessed and the authority to which an appeal from an assessment order may be made;\n(xvi) the method and time of payment of taxes and other dues the procedure of recovery and the authority whose assistance may be taken by Gaon Panchayat in the recovery of taxes and other dues;\n(xvii) the method of account keeping the Gaon Panchayats or Circle Panchayats;\n(xviii) the maintenance of public building and nazul land;\n(xix) the formalities to be observed when transferring any property and the manner in which a deed of contract may be executed by a Gaon Sabha;\n(xx) powers of auditors, inspecting and superintending authorities to hold inquiries, summoning and examining witness, compelling the production of documents and all other matters connected with audit, inspection and superintendence;\n(xxi) the issue, service or execution of summons, notices and other processes of Panchayati Adalat and issue and service of notice by Gaon Panchayats;\n(xxii) the transfer by a Panchayati Adalat of summons and other processes to another Panchayati Adalat or any court for service or execution;\n(xxiii) the fees to be levied by Panchayati Adalats for institution of suits, for issue of processes for obtaining copies of documents and other matters;\n(xxiv) the court fees and other fees payable where a Panchayati Adalat, with the consent of parties, entertains a suit which is otherwise beyond the jurisdiction;\n(xxv) the procedure for execution of decrees and orders passed by Panchayati Adalats;\n(xxvi) the allotment by Gaon Panchayats of funds for the performance by Circle Panchayat or Panchayati Adalats for their duties under this Act or any rule or bye-law and the extent to which fees paid to Panchayati Adalats may be appropriated by Gaon Panchayats;\n(xxvii) the powers that may be exercised by the District Board or any prescribed authority in the discharge of their obligations under this Act and the manner in which such powers may be exercised;\n(xxviii) the procedure to be observed in the making of bye-laws by the prescribed authority for Gaon Panchayats or by Gaon Panchayats or for Circle Panchayats;\n(xxix) the printing of the prescribed forms and registers;\n(xxx) the submission for approval of plans, designs, specifications and estimates;\n(xxxi) the duties, power and functions of village volunteer force, if any;\n(xxxii) the submission of annual reports by Gaon Sabha and their review;\n(xxxiii) persons other than members of the Gaon Sabhas who may be present in an advisory capacity in meeting of Gaon Sabhas;\n(xxxiv) channels of correspondence between a Gaon Panchayat, Circle Panchayat and other authorities;\n(xxxv) disposal of assets and liabilities of a Gaon Sabha or Circle Panchayat on its supersession;\n(xxxvi) [****].\n(xxxvii) the conditions subject to which sums due to a Gaon Sabha may be written off as irrecoverable, and the conditions subjects to which the whole or any part of a fee may be remitted and generally for the guidance of Gaon Sabhas, Gaon Panchayats, Circle Panchayats, Panchayati Adalats, committees, servants of the State and other authorities in any matter connected with the carrying out of the provisions of this Act;\n(xxxviii) the regulation of the election of the members of the Gaon Panchayat and panches of Circle Panchayats in order to secure the adequate representation of the Scheduled Castes;\n(xxxix) the mode of assembling the votes and recording their votes;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 96 }, { "number": "103", "title": "103. The Prescribed authority to make bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 97 }, { "number": "104", "title": "104. Power to Gaon Panchayat to frame bye-laws.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) [****]\n(b) [* * * *]\n(c) to prevent damage to public streets and Gaon Sabha property;\n(d) [****]\n(e) to prohibit or regulate the use of public streets or other public places by shopkeepers or other individuals or collection of market tools on public streets;\n(f) to regulate the manner in which tanks, ponds and cess-pools, pasture lands, playgrounds, manure pits, lands for disposal of dead bodies and bathing places shall be maintained and used.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 98 }, { "number": "105", "title": "105. Repeal and transitory provision.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 99 }, { "number": "106", "title": "106. Interpretation.", "chapter": null, "content": "Schedule 1\nDescription of suits\nDescription of suits\nDescription of suits\nDescription of suits\nPeriod of Limitation\nPeriod of Limitation\nTime from which period begins to run\nTime from which period begins to run\n1\n1\n2\n2\n3\n3", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 100 }, { "number": "1", "title": "1. For money due on a contract.", "chapter": null, "content": "3 years\nwhen the money became due to the plaintiff.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 101 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. For the recovery of movable property or the\n\t\t\t\t\tvalue thereof.", "chapter": null, "content": "Do\nwhen the plaintiff became entitled to the\n\t\t\t\t\tdelivery of the movable property.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 102 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. For compensation for wrongfully taking or\n\t\t\t\t\tinjuring a movable property", "chapter": null, "content": "Do\nwhen the movable property was wrongfully taken\n\t\t\t\t\tor when injury was done to it.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 103 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. For damages caused by cattle trespass", "chapter": null, "content": "6 months\nThe damage was caused by the cattle trespass.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 104 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "dl185", "Act Number": "(Act No. 3 of 1955)", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "1954", "Short Title": "Delhi Panchayat Raj Act, 1954", "Type": "UNION_TERRITORY", "Location": "Delhi" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:22" }