Section 16 – Local Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 16 – Local Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrates. – (1) Subject to the control of the State Government, the District Magistrate may, from time…
Section 15 – Special Executive Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 15 – Special Executive Magistrates. – The State Government may appoint, for such term as it may think fit, Executive Magistrates or any police officer…
Section 14 – Executive Magistrates – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 14 – Executive Magistrates – (1) In every district, the State Government may appoint as many persons as it thinks fit to be Executive Magistrates and…
Section 13 – Subordination of Judicial Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 13 – Subordination of Judicial Magistrates. – (1) Every Chief Judicial Magistrate shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge; and every other Judicial Magistrate…
Section 12 – Local Jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 12 – Local Jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates. – (1) Subject to the control of the High Court, the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, from…
Section 11 – Special Judicial Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 11 – Special Judicial Magistrates. – (1) The High Court may, if requested by the Central or State Government so to do, confer upon any…
Section 10 – Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 10 – Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc. – (1) In every district, the High Court…
Section 9 – Courts of Judicial Magistrates. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 9 – Courts of Judicial Magistrates. – (1) In every district there shall be established as many Courts of Judicial Magistrates of the first…
Section 8 – Court of Session. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 8 – Court of Session. – (1) The State Government shall establish a Court of Session for every sessions division. (2) Every Court of Session…
Section 7 – Territorial divisions. – The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) Section 7 – Territorial divisions. – (1) Every State shall be a sessions division or shall consist of sessions divisions; and every sessions divisions shall, for the…