The West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973 - MGNREGA Jalpaiguri, Home

suits when the value of the suit does not exceed two hundred and fifty rupees,
namely:—
(a) suits for money due on contracts;
(b) suits for the recovery of movable property or the value of such
property;
(c) suits for compensation for wrongfully taking or damaging movable
property; and
(d) suits for damages by cattle-trespass.
(2) No other court shall have jurisdiction to try any suit of the classes mentioned
in sub-section (1):
Provided that nothing in this Act shall lake away the jurisdiction of any court to try
a suit which a Nyaya Panchayat is prohibited by section 78 from trying or which
should be, in the opinion of the Nyaya Panchayat or of the District Judge
exercising the power conferred by sub-section (2) of section 79, tried by an
ordinary court.
62. No suit shall lie in any Nyaya Panchayat—
(a) on a balance of partnership account;
(b) for a share or part of a share under an intestacy, or for a legacy or part
of legacy under a Will;
(c) by or against the Union of India or a State Government or a local
authority or public officers for acts done in their official capacity;
(d) by or against minors or persons of unsound mind or when any such
person is in the opinion of the Nyaya Panchayat a necessary party;
(e) for the assessment, enhancement, reduction, abatement,
apportionment or recovery of rent of immovable property; or
(f) by a mortgagee of immovable properly for the enforcement of the
mortgage by foreclosure or sale of the property or otherwise, or by a
mortgagor of immovable properly for the redemption of the mortgage.
Suites not be
tried.
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