Under Part I of the First Schedule to the Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008, a Gram Nyayalaya may try criminal…

Item (i) of Part I of the First Schedule to the Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008, read with section 12 of the Act, empowers a Gram Nyayalaya to try offences not punishable with death, imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term exceeding "Two years". Part I also lists certain specified property offences, such as theft and receiving stolen property where the value of the property does not exceed twenty thousand rupees, and criminal cases before a Gram Nyayalaya are tried in a summary manner. (The M.P. Gram Nyayalaya Adhiniyam, 1996 has been repealed; Gram Nyayalayas in Madhya Pradesh are now established under this central Act.) "One year", "Three years" and "Seven years" are not the limit fixed by the Schedule.