A History of Assam c21.14

c21.14

The ordinary criminal and civil duties were performed by councils of the local gentry, designated panchāyats, of which there were some half dozen. More heinous cases were tried, with the assistance of a panchāyat, by the Commissioner's Assistants, who also disposed of appeals from the panchāyats, and from whose decisions, both appellate and original, a further appeal lay to the Commissioner himself.