Power to try offences summarily

Any Magistrate of the first class may try in a summary way the offences specified in sub-section (1) of section 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (No. 2 of 1974) or of law for the time being in force in this behalf being made by the prosecution, and the provisions of sections 262 to 265 of the said Code shall, as far as may be, apply to such trial of any offence punishable under this Act.