| In 2001, when the panchayat elections were announced, Bhagwan Devi was encouraged to contest as a ward member. |
| On November 14, a maha panchayat was called by the Guliya Khap community at Duleena village. |
| The panchayat is only a rough and ready way of settling disputes, or punishing minor offences. |
| Sold at an open auction by the panchayat in a town of Madhya Pradesh a few years ago, Devaki bai had nothing but bad memories of the past. |
| Why not some panchayat, a round table under the overseer moon, or a palaver by the banyan tree? |
| The panchayat could levy fines, although if the offender did not pay it had then to go to the civil courts for redressal. |
