(1) When an Executive Magistrate receives information that any person is likely to commit a breach of the peace or disturb the public tranquillity or to do any wrongful act that may probably occasion a breach of the peace or disturb the public tranquillity and is of opinion that there is sufficient ground for proceeding, […]
Section 126: Security for keeping peace in other cases. Read More »
Police officers superior in rank to an officer in charge of a police station may exercise the same powers, throughout the local area to which they are appointed, as may be exercised by such officer within the limits of his station.
Section 30: Powers of superior officers of police. Read More »
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Sanhita, the powers and duties of a Judge or Magistrate may be exercised or performed by his successor-in-office. (2) When there is any doubt as to who is the successor-in-office, the Sessions Judge shall determine by order in writing the Judge who shall, for the purposes of
Section 29: Powers of Judges and Magistrates exercisable by their successors-in office. Read More »
(1) The High Court or the State Government, as the case may be, may withdraw all or any of the powers conferred by it under this Sanhita on any person or by any officer subordinate to it. (2) Any powers conferred by the Chief Judicial Magistrate or by the District Magistrate may be withdrawn by
Whenever any person holding an office in the service of Government who has been invested by the High Court or the State Government with any powers under this Sanhita throughout any local area is appointed to an equal or higher office of the samenature, within a like local area under the same State Government, he
(1) In conferring powers under this Sanhita, the High Court or the State Government, as the case may be, may, by order, empower persons specially by name or in virtue of their offices or classes of officials generally be their official titles. (2) Every such order shall take effect from the date on which it
(1) When a person is convicted at one trial of two or more offences, the Court may, subject to the provisions of section 9 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, sentence him for such offences, to the several punishments prescribed therefor which such Court is competent to inflict and the Court shall, considering the gravity
Section 25: Sentence in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial. Read More »
(1) The Court of a Magistrate may award such term of imprisonment in default of payment of fine as is authorised by law:Provided that the term—(a) is not in excess of the powers of the Magistrate under section 23;(b) shall not, where imprisonment has been awarded as part of the substantive sentence, exceed one-fourth of
Section 24: Sentence of imprisonment in default of fine. Read More »
(1) The Court of a Chief Judicial Magistrate may pass any sentence authorised by law except a sentence of death or of imprisonment for life or of imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years. (2) The Court of a Magistrate of the first class may pass a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding
Section 23: Sentences which Magistrates may pass. Read More »
If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a