Committee or Punchayet shall consist of persons conversant with the laws or usages of Hindus.
III. On receipt of an application under the last preceding section, the Local Committee or Punchayet shall proceed to inquire whether there are sufficient grounds for allowing the claim therein set forth. Every such claim shall be summarily disallowed, unless one of the following grounds be alleged in the application.
1. That the living wife of the applicant has committed adultery.
2. That the living wife of the applicant is a confirmed Lunatic.
3, That the living wife of the applicant is afflicted with incurable Leprosy or some other such incurable and loathsome disease.
4. That the living wife of the applicant has been incapable of bearing male children, for a period of not less than eight years after the consummation of marriage.
5. That the living wife of the applicant, is guilty of practices by which a Hindu becomes an outcaste.
6. That the living wife of the applicant is a person with whom, according to the law and usages of the Hindus, he could not lawfully contract a marriage; and that his marriage with her had been contracted in ignorance of the true state of the case, or in consequence of fraud practised upon him.
IV. If the grounds alleged in an application relate exclusively to natters of private concernment, the Local Committee or Punchayet may require the applicant to testify to the facts on solemn affirmation and may record such testimony as sufficient prima facie evidence of the facts so
