Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
BNSS Section 212
Making over of cases to Magistrates
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BNSS Section 212 deals with making over of cases to magistrates and replaces CrPC 192.
Bare act text — BNSS 212
212. Making over of cases to Magistrates.
(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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What was BNSS Section 212 in the CrPC?
BNSS Section 212 (Making over of cases to Magistrates) replaces Section 192 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. CrPC 192 is now BNSS 212.
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Nearby BNSS sections
- BNSS 207 — Power to issue summons or warrant for offence committed beyond local jurisdiction
- BNSS 208 — Offence committed outside India
- BNSS 209 — Receipt of evidence relating to offences committed outside India
- BNSS 210 — Cognizance of offences by Magistrate
- BNSS 211 — Transfer on application of accused
- BNSS 213 — Cognizance of offences by Court of Session
- BNSS 214 — Additional Sessions Judges to try cases made over to them
- BNSS 215 — . Prosecution for contempt of lawful authority of public servants, for offences against public justice and for offences relating to documents given in evidence
- BNSS 216 — Procedure for witnesses in case of threatening, etc
- BNSS 217 — Prosecution for offences against State and for criminal conspiracy to commit such offence