(1) The Member Secretary, the Secretary of the High Court Legal Services Committee, the District Authority or, as the case may be, the Chairman of the Taluk Legal Services Committee may call for the judicial records of pending cases which are referred to the Lok Adalal under Section 20 of the Act from the courts concerned.
(2) The officer duly authorised by the Member Secretary, the Secretary of the High Court Legal Services Committee, the District Authority or the Chairman of the Taluk Legal Services, as the case may be, shall be responsible for the safe custody of records from receiving of the same from court till they are returned.
(3) The judicial records shall be returned within ten days of the Lok Adafat irrespective or whether or not the case is settled by the Lok Adalat with an endorsement about the result of proceedings:
Provided that wherever it is appropriate, the court concerned from where the records are called may permit the records to be retained beyond the period of ten days.
(4) Every judicial authority is expected to co-operate in transmission of the judicial records.