Maintenance of Panchayat records, etc., and liability to hand them over.

(2) If on a requisition made in this behalf by the Executive Officer of the Panchayat Samiti, any person referred to in sub-section (1) within a period of ten days of such requisition fails to hand over the prescribed records, registers and other property belonging to or vested in the Sabha the Executive Officer of the Panchayat Samiti shall apply to an Executive Magistrate of the First Class within whose jurisdiction the Sabha area is situated for securing from such person such records, registers and other property.