Section 8
Cognizance of offences.
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to recognise and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations but whose rights could not be recorded; to provide for a framework for recording the forest rights so vested and the nature of evidence required for such recognition and vesting in respect of forest land.
No court shall take cognizance of any offence under section 7 unless any
forest dwelling Scheduled Tribe in case of a dispute relating to a resolution of a Gram Sabha or the Gram
Sabha through a resolution against any higher authority gives a notice of not less than sixty days to the
State Level Monitoring Committee and the State Level Monitoring Committee has not proceeded against
such authority.