§192 — Making over of cases to Magistrates

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to Assam. The text above is the central provision and is what applies everywhere else — these amendments are law only in the State that made them.

• Assam[Vide Assam Act 3 of 1984, s. 3(3) and the Schedule.]Read →Hide

  Assam In Section 192 of the Code:— (i) in sub-section (1), after the word “Any” the words “District Magistrate” shall be inserted; (ii) sub-section (2) shall be substituted as follows:— (2) Any Sub-divisional Magistrate or Magistrate of the first class empowered in this behalf by District Magistrate or Chief Judicial Magistrate, as the case may be, may, after taking cognizance of an offence, make over the case for enquiry or trial to such other competent Magistrate as the District Magistrate or Chief Judicial Magistrate may, by general or special order, specify, and thereupon such Magistrate may hold the enquiry or trail.

Reproduced from the same official PDF as the section above, as the amending Act words it — not a consolidated State version of the section. Check the source before relying on it.