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CHAPTER VIII Penalties and Procedure

Section 106: Suits against Gram Sabhas, Gram Panchayats, the officers 1[x x x]

The Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1947

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 6 of 2017.

Chapter VI (The Nyaya Panchayat), sections 42 to 94-A, is printed only as a heading with the official footnote "Chapter VI comprising sections 42 to 94-A Omitted by sec. 16 of U.P. Act No. 6 of 2017.", so those sections have no pages here.

The marginal headings printed beside each section in this edition are shown as the section headings; sections 37, 37-A, 95-A and 109 carry no marginal heading in this copy.

Marginal references to other enactments (for example "U.P. Act No. I of 1951") printed beside the text are not reproduced.

[(1) No suit or other legal proceeding shall be instituted against a Gram Sabha or Gram Panchayat [or Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti or against member or officer or servants there 1[x x x] or against any person acting under the direction of any of these bodies or persons for any thing done or purporting to have been done in official capacity under this Act, until the expiration of two months next after notice in writing has been, in the case of a Gram Sabha or Gram Panchayat delivered in or left at the office of the Gram Panchayat concerned and in the case of a member, officer or servant or any person acting under his direction or the direction of the Gram Sabha, Gram Panchayat or 1[x x x] delivered to him or left at his office or place of abode, explicitly stating the cause of action, the nature of the relief sought, the amount of compensation, if any claimed and the name and place or abode of the intending plaintiff and the plaint shall contain a statement that such notice has been so delivered or left.]

(2) No action such as is described in sub-section (1) shall be commenced otherwise than within six months next after the accrual of the cause of action.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Omit. by sec. 19 of U.P. Act No. 6 of 2017.

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