Power to try summarity

Power to try summarily.-(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Code-

1. (a) the Chief Judicial Magistrate, or
2. (b) Any Judicial Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the High Court,
3. (c) Omitted. May, if he thinks fit, try in a summary way all or any of the following offences:- a) offences not punishable with death, life imprisonment or imprisonment for a term exceeding six months;
4. (aa) offences relating to disobedience to orders promulgated, and punishable under section 188 of the Ranbir Penal Code. b) offences relating to weights and measure under sections 264, 265 and 266 of the Ranbir Penal Code; c) hurt, under section 323 of the same Code; d) theft, under section 379, 380 or 381 of the same Code, where the value of property stolen does not exceed two hundred rupees; e) dishonest misappropriation of property, under section 403 of the same Code, where the value of the property misappropriated does not exceed two hundred rupees; f) receiving or relating stolen property, under section 411 of the same Code, where the value of such property does not exceed two hundred rupees; g) assisting in the concealment or disposal of stolen property, under section 414 of the same Code, where the value of such property does not exceed two hundred rupees; h) mischief, under section 427 of the same Code; i) house-trespass, under section 448 and offences under sections 451, 453, 454, 456 and 457 of the same Code; j) insult with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, under section 504, and criminal intimidation, under section 506, of the same Code; k) abatement of any of the foregoing offences; l) an attempt to commit any of the foregoing offences, when such attempt is an offence; m) offences under section 20 of the Cattle Trespass Act: Provided that no case in which a Magistrate exercises the special powers conferred by section 34 shall be tried in a summary way.

1. (2) When in the course of a summary trial it appears to the Magistrate that the case is one which is of a character which render it undesirable that it should be tried summarily the Magistrate shall recal any witnesses who may have been examined and proceed to rehear the case in manner provided by this Code; Effacing any writing from a substance bearing a Government stamp, or removing from a document a stamp used for it with intent to cause loss to Government. Do Do Do Do Imprisonment of either description for 3 years, or fine, or both.

²⁶¹ Omitted