Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita — Section 212

(1) Any Chief Judicial Magistrate may, after taking cognizance of an offence,

212. (1) Any Chief Judicial Magistrate may, after taking cognizance of an offence,

make over the case for inquiry or trial to any competent Magistrate subordinate to him.

(2) Any Magistrate of the first class empowered in this behalf by the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, after taking cognizance of an offence, make over the case for inquiry or trial to such other competent Magistrate as the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, by general or special order, specify, and thereupon such Magistrate may hold the inquiry or trial.

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