CrPC 408BNSS 448

What changed

• The words "one thousand rupees" are replaced by "sum", whereas "two hundred and fifty rupees" is replaced by "sum not exceeding ten thousand rupees".

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Under Section 448 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly Section 408 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973)...

Bare act text — BNSS 448

448. Power of Sessions Judge to transfer cases and appeals.—(1) Whenever it is made to appear to a Sessions Judge that an order under this sub-section is expedient for the ends of justice, he may order that any particular case be transferred from one Criminal Court to another Criminal Court in his sessions division. (2) The Sessions Judge may act either on the report of the lower Court, or on the application of a party interested, or on his own initiative. (3) The provisions of sub-sections (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (9) of section 447 shall apply in relation to an application to the Sessions Judge for an order under sub -section ( 1) as they apply in relation to an application to the High Court for an order under sub-section (1) of section 447, except that sub-section (7) of that section shall so apply as if for the word “sum” occurring therein, the words “sum not exceeding ten thousand rupees” were substituted.