RAM BISHAL Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS was a case against the applicants under Sections 143,447 and 506, Penal Code and was tried by a Magistrate of the first class. The contention is that the offences under Sections 447 and 506, Penal Code being offences cognizable by a Panchayati Adalat under Section 52, Panchayat Raj Act, 1947 (U.P. Act XXVI [26] of 1947) they could not have been tried by the Magistrate and that therefore the trail of the applicants under those sections was illegal. No doubt section 52 specifies certain offences as being cognizable by a pan hayati Adalat. Section 55, however, runs as follows:

(2.) THE application is accordingly rejected.