(1) The parties to cases, triable by a Nyaya Panchayat shall appear personally before the Nyaya Panchayat:
Provided that the Nyaya Panchayat, if it thinks fit so to do, may dispense with the personal attendance of an accused and permit him to appear by agent.
(2) The parties to suits triable by a Nyaya Panchayat may appear by agent.
Explanation.—"agent" in sub-sections (1) and (2), means a person who is authorised in writing to appear and plead for either party.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), no person whose name is included in a list of touts farmed and published by Sub-divisional Magistrate under section 80A of the Registration Act, 1908, shall be permitted to appear as an agent 16 of 1908.
of a party before a Nyaya Panchayat.
Legal 84. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Legal Practitioners 18 of 1879.
practitioners not to Act, 1879, legal practitioners shall not be permitted to practise before practise. a Nyaya Panchayat.
85. No woman shall be compelled to appear in person before a Nyaya Panchayat as an accused or as a witness.
86. Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, a Nyaya Panchayat may issue a commission to examine any person in accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed.
Appearance of women.
Power to issue commission.
308 The West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973.
XLI of 1973.]
(Part IL—Gram Panchayat.—Chapter VII.—Nyaya Panchayats.—Sections 87-89.)
87. Where a suit is maintainable in more than one Nyaya Panchayat, the plaintiff may bring the suit in any one of such Nyaya Panchayats and any dispute regarding the jurisdiction of a Nyaya Panchayat to entertain any suit shall be decided by the Munsif who would have had jurisdiction to try the same but for the provisions of this Act, and the decision of the Munsif thereon shall be final.
Trial of suit triable by more than one Nyaya Panchayat