The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
(1) Every such record and judgment shall be written in the language of the Court. (2) The High Court may authorise any Magistrate empowered to try offences summarily to prepare the aforesaid record or judgment or both by means of an officer appointed in this behalf by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, and the record or judgment so prepared shall be signed by such Magistrate.
CRPC §265 → BNSS §288 per the official NCRB Sankalan table.
Source & version
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 Repealed by BNSS 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01.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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