(1) No Nyaya Panchayat shall try any suit or issue in respect of any matter which is pending for decision in, or has been heard and decided by, a court of competent jurisdiction in a former civil suit between the same parties or between parties under whom they or any of them claim.
(2) Where an accused person toas been tried for any offence, no Nyaya Panchayat shall take cognizance of such offence or on the same facts of any other offence of which the accused might have been charged or convicted.
Rej judicara and pending suits.
71. The decision of a Nyaya Panchayat on the question of title, legal character, contract or obligation shall not bind the parties except in respect of the suit in which such matter is decided.
Effect of decision.