Supersession of a Gaon Sabha or a Gaon Panchayat or Circle Panchayat or a Panchayati Adalat

(1) If in the opinion of the Chief Commissioner a Gaon Sabha or a Gaon Panchayat or a Circle Panchayat or a Panchayati Adalat is incompetent to perform or persistently makes default in the performance of a duty imposed on it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force or exceeds or abuses its powers or should there be any other reason which in the opinion of the Chief Commissioner necessitates the supersession of the body, the Chief Commissioner may, by notification in the Official Gazette, supersede it. (2) On the supersession of a Gaon Sabha or a Gaon Panchayat or a Circle Panchayat or a Panchayati Adalat under sub-section (1) the following consequences shall ensue : (a) all members or panches of the Gaon Sabha or the Gaon Panchayat or a Circle Panchayat shall be disposed Adalat shall from the date of notification vacate their seats; (b) the funds and other property, if any, vested in the Gaon Sabha or Circle Panchayat shall be disposed in such manner as the Chief Commissioner may direct; and (c) the Senior Sub-Judge [The Additional District Magistrate] or the Collector, as the case may be, shall withdraw all [civil, criminal and revenue cases] pending before such Circle Panchayat or Panchayati Adalat and dispose of them in accordance with law. (3) The Chief Commissioner may at any time establish another such body in the place of the one so superseded under this section in accordance with the provision of this Act. (4) Until the body superseded under sub-section (1) is established, the duties, powers and functions of the body so superseded shall be discharged, exercised and performed by such person or authority as the Chief Commissioner may specify. When under Section 45 of the Act, the Chief Commissioner decides to utilise the services of any Circle Panchayat as a representative elected body of the constituent Gaon Sabha for the purpose of coordinating their common schemes of development projects and their general superintendence, it shall be the duty of the Sarpanch to : (1) convene meetings of the Circle Panchayat to put up before them the development projects and to take action to execute the resolutions of the Circle Panchayat; (2) act as liaison officer between the Circle Panchayat and Gaon Sabha on the one hand and the technical assistants on the other hand and generally to take all action needed to expedite execution and completion of the work in hand; (3) to undertake and perform as principal officer of the Circle Panchayat the work of any superseded Gaon Sabha during the period of supersession, under the control and with the approval of the Circle Panchayat generally and by assuming the functions of a Pradhan as prescribed under the Act and these rules; (4) transact under the control and with the approval of the Circle Panchayat and business in which all or more than one of the constituent Gaon Sabhas are jointly interested; (5) take action under Section 34 of the Act for the acquisition of land to carry out any purposes of the Act, where a number of Gaon Sabhas have combined under Section 44; (6) when a Circle Panchayat is so empowered by the Chief Commissioner under Part B of Section 45 of the Act, it shall be the duty of the Sarpanch to act as the principal officer of the Circle Panchayat to exercise general superintendence and control over the constituent Gaon Sabhas and Gaon Panchayats ; (7) control the collection and disbursement of such funds as are placed at the disposal of the Circle Panchayat, under order of the Chief Commissioner, under clause 2 of Part B of Section 45 of the Act.