YES. When a Court or a Police Officer requires certain documents or any other things for trial or inquiry or for investigation and those documents or things are believed to be in the possession of a person. And, if he is called to produce the documents or things by the Court through Summons or by […]
The High Court, if any request made by the Central or the State Government, confer upon a person, who holds or has been in the service of the Government with all or limited powers of a First Class or Second Class Magistrate, appoint him as Special Judicial Magistrate, for disposal of particular case or class[…..]
In a District, where population is less than 10 lakh, a Judicial Magistrate of the First Class is appointed by the High Court as Chief Judicial Magistrate [CJM]. Similarly, the First Class Magistrate is appointed as Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate [A-CJM] and he shall have all the powers of the CJM. While the Judicial Magistrate[…..]
Cr. P. C. says that the State in consultation with the High Court may have formed one or more Special Courts in any local area to handle some specific set of cases. It can also appoint a Judicial Magistrate of First Class or Second Class in such Courts. Otherwise, no Magistrate Courts functioning in the[…..]
Under the Criminal Law, all the Assistant Sessions Judges are subordinate to the Sessions Judge in whose Court they exercise Jurisdiction. The Sessions Judge has the powers to make rules and its implementation in the Courts down the line and he is the master of roster who has powers to allot cases to his subordinate[…..]
Cr.P.C. explains that the State shall establish a Court of Session in every Sessions Division and it shall be presided by a Judge appointed by the High Court. Additional and Assistant Sessions Judges are also appointed therein by the High Court. The Sessions Judge of one Division can also be appointed as an Additional Sessions[…..]
According to Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the State may declare by notification that a City or a Town where population exceeds 10 lakh [1.0 million] and that area shall be called a Metropolitan Area under this Code. While from the date of commencement of the Code, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Ahmedabad were declared as[…..]
In Criminal Law, the territory of the State is demarcated as Sessions Divisions. Each Session Division is a District. One Sessions Division comprises with the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court and subordinate Magistrate Courts [if it is rural] or the Sessions Division is comprising with Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Subordinate Magistrate Courts [if it is City]. […..]
Punishable offences are less than 7 years or above 7 years with or without fine or a capital punishment and important elements constituting of such arrest [of the person], the Police Officer must convinced himself that such arrest was necessary or not on following grounds; To prevent that person from committing any further offence, or[…..]
The Police Officer has the powers to arrest a person without having received any Warrant of Arrest from the concerned Magistrate provided the person has; Commissioned a Cognizable Offence in the presence of that Officer, or A Complaint against that person was received on commissioning of a Cognizable Offence, or Sufficient information received against the[…..]