Section 19
Gram Nyayalaya to follow summary trial procedure.
About this Act
An Act to provide for the establishment of Gram Nyayalayas at the grass roots level for the purposes of providing access to justice to the citizens at their doorsteps and to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of social, economic or other disabilities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) Notwithstanding anything
contained in sub-section (1) of section 260 or sub-section (2) of section 262 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) the Gram Nyayalaya shall try the offences in a summary way in accordance
with the procedure specified in Chapter XXI of the said Code and the provisions of sub-section (1) of
section 262 and sections 263 to 265 of the said Code, shall, so far as may be, apply to such trial.
(2) When, in the course of a summary trial, it appears to the Nyayadhikari that the nature of the case is such that it is undesirable to try it summarily, the Nyayadhikari shall recall any witness who may have been examined and proceed to re-hear the case in the manner provided under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).
(2) When, in the course of a summary trial, it appears to the Nyayadhikari that the nature of the case is such that it is undesirable to try it summarily, the Nyayadhikari shall recall any witness who may have been examined and proceed to re-hear the case in the manner provided under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).