(1) As soon as application orally or in writing is made under section 53, its substance shall be recorded in the register maintained in Form-20 and the signature or thumb impression of the applicant shall be taken in the register.
(2) The Pradhan or Up-Pradhan receiving the application shall, under section 54, record all particulars required under section 31 for determining territorial jurisdiction and in cases of civil suits further record its description and valuation and in a criminal case, the nature of offences, and, if possible particulars of the matter mentioned in section 42.
(3) No Gram Panchayat shall receive the revenue proceedings directly but the Gram Panchayat shall hear and decide only those revenue proceedings which are transferred to it by the revenue court under subsection (3) of section 31 and section 48. The Pradhan or Up-Pradhan, as the case may be, shall constitute a bench to decide the revenue proceedings in the same manner as prescribed for civil suit and the bench shall also hear and decide the proceedings in the similar manner as laid down for deciding the civil suits.
(4) The Pradhan or in his absence the Up-Pradhan shall form a bench of three Panches keeping in view the provisions of section 30 for the trial and decision of the case, suit or proceedings.
(5) Every bench shall choose one of the Panches to be the Chairman of that bench unless the Pradhan or Up-Pradhan is a member of it in which case he will be the Chairman of the bench.