The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

§17 — Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

(1) The High Court shall, in relation to every metropolitan area within its local jurisdiction, appoint a Metropolitan Magistrate to be the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate for such metropolitan area. (2) The High Court may appoint any Metropolitan Magistrate to be an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, and such Magistrate shall have all or any of the powers of a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate under this Code or under any other law for the time being in force as the High Court may direct.

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Old lawCRPC §17Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

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CRPC §17 has no counterpart in BNSS (omitted) per the official NCRB Sankalan table.

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Official text: India Code (official) ↗

Official India Code text: The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/15272/1/the_code_of_criminal_procedure,_1973.pdf, 1,879,339 bytes) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-16. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Repealed by BNSS 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; illustrations restored via illustration-aware re-extraction on 2026-07-19; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.

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