Transfer of pending suit or other proceedings for eviction.

1. (1) All suits, appeals, proceedings in execution of decree or order and other proceedings for the eviction of a mundkar or a person who has therein claimed to be a mundkar or for the curtailment or for the non-enjoyment of any right mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 6, pending in any court, on the appointed date, shall be transferred to the Mamlatdar within whose jurisdiction the dwelling house, from which the eviction is sought, is situated.
2. (2) The Mamlatdar, to whom a suit, appeal, proceeding in execution or other proceeding is so transferred under sub-section (1), shall inquire into and first decide the

question whether the person to be evicted is a mundkar or not and if his decision is that such person is not a mundkar, the suit, appeal, proceeding in execution or other proceeding shall be re-transferred to the court from which it was transferred to the Mamlatdar.

1. (3) If the Mamlatdar decides that the person to be evicted is a mundkar, he shall declare the suit to abate and direct the bhatkar to make a fresh application under this Act, if the bhatkar so desires.