ENACTMENT No. 9 Of 1962
ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT

PART III - RELIGIOUS COURTS
Constitution and Jurisdiction



Section 41. Jurisdiction.

(1) The Court of the Kathi Besar shall have jurisdiction throughout the State and shall be presided over by the Kathi Besar.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Enactment, a Court of a Kathi shall have jurisdiction in respect of any civil or criminal matter of the nature hereinafter specified arising within the local limits of jurisdiction prescribed for it under the preceding section, or, if no local limits are so prescribed, within the State, and shall be presided over by the Kathi appointed thereto.

(3) The Court of the Kathi Besar shall-
Provided that it shall not ordinarily try any offence or hear or determine any action or proceeding in respect of which any Court of a Kathi has jurisdiction.

(4) Except as otherwise provided in any written law, the Court of a Kathi shall-
(5) No decision of the Court of the Kathi Besar or a Kathi shall affect any right of property of any non-Muslim.




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