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Distinct from Bell's approach, Wigner had derived a form of local realist (LR) inequality which is quantum mechanically violated for a bipartite maximally entangled state. Subsequently, this approach was generalized to obtain a multipartite LR inequality. However, the violation of such generalised Wigner's inequality does not guarantee nonlocality between all possible different bipartitions of the multipartite system. In the present work, this limitation has been overcome by formulating a further generalisation of Wigner's approach through the derivation of a set of LR inequalities with respect to all different bipartitions of a N-partite system. Quantum mechanical violations of all individual LR inequalities belonging to such a set would rigorously certify multipartite nonlocality by also providing a finer characterisation of the nature of multipartite nonlocality in the following sense. The quantum mechanical violation of any given inequality of our complete set of LR inequalities would enable identification of the corresponding bipartition which exhibits nonlocality. This is in contrast to other multipartite LR inequalities such as the Svetlichny inequality or its generalisation that cannot be used to detect whether there is any particular bipartition which is nonlocally correlated. The efficacy of the scheme developed in this paper is illustrated for the tripartite and quadripartite states.