Section 36
Nyayadhikaris and employees, etc., to be public servants.
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.
The Nyayadhikaris and the
officers and other employees of the Gram Nyayalayas shall be deemed, when acting or purporting to act
in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act, to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of
the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).