Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act : Cognizance of

Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act,2007

Act No : 2

Section : Cognizance of offences

8. Cognizance of offences.- 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.