(1) No suit or prosecution shall lie against any member, officer, employee or agent of a Gram Panchayat or an [***] or a Zilla Parishad, in respect of anything done or intended to be done in good faith under this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder.
(2) No suit or other legal proceeding shall be instituted against any Gram Panchayat or[***] or Zilla Parishad or any member, officer, employee or agent thereof for anything done or purporting to be done under this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder, until expiration of two months next after notice in writing has been left or delivered at the office of the Gram Panchayat or [***] or Zilla Parishad as the case may be, and also at the residence of the member, officer employee, or agent thereof against whom such suit or proceeding is intended to be instituted, and the notice shall state the amount of compensation claimed and the name and place of abode of the person who intends to institute the suit or proceedings.
(3) Every suit or proceeding referred to in sub-section (2) shall be instituted within six months after the date on which cause of action arose.
Bar of action against Gram Panchayat, [***] and Zilla Parishad etc., and previous notice before institution.
144. If any member, officer or servant of a Gram Panchayat, [***] • or Zilla Parishad knowingly acquires for himself directly or indirectly by himself or by a partner, employer or servant, any share or interest in any contract or employment with, by or on behalf of a Gram Panchayat, [****] or Zilla Parishad he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
145. Who ever-
(i) obstruct a Gram panchayat or an [***] or a Zilla Parishad or any Penalty for acquisition by officer or servant of interest in contract.
Penalty for obstructing, Panchayat or [***l or members, employee or agent thereof or prevent or attempts to prevent any such member, employee or agent from doing anything which he is empowered or required to do under the provisions of this Act or any rule bye-law made thereunder ; or
(ii) without lawful authority removes or destroys, defaces or otherwise obliterates any notice, materials, lamp post, direction post, stand post or any other property exhibited or erected by the Gram Panchayat or[***] or Zilla Parishad or under its authority, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.
146. Whosoever removes, displaces or makes an alternation in or encroaches of land, road etc. Or otherwise interferes with any pavement, gutter or other materials of public streets, or any fence, wall or post thereof or a lamp post or bracket, direction post, stand post, hydrent or other such property of the Gram Panchayat, the[***] and the Zilla Parishad without the sanction from the respective Gram Panchayat, [***] and Zilla Parishad or other local authority shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
14 7. Whosoever contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or rule made thereunder shall, if no other penalty is provided elsewhere in the Act for such contravention, be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees and, in the case of a continuing contravention with an additional fine which may extend to ten rupees for every day after the first during which he has persisted in the contravention