law: Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
  
  11.Cognizance of offences.-
  (1) No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable
  
  under this Act save on a complaint made by or under the authority of the
  
  appropriate Government :
  Provided that where the amount of gratuity has not been
  
  paid, or recovered, within six months from the expiry of the prescribed time,
  
  the appropriate Government shall authorize the controlling authority to make a
  
  complaint against the employer, whereupon the controlling authority shall,
  
  within fifteen days from the date of such authorization, make such complaint to
  
  a magistrate having jurisdiction to try the offence.
  
  
  (2) No court inferior to that of a Presidency Magistrate or a Magistrate of the
  
  first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act.