section 210
Cognizance of offences by Magistrate.
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023Criminal2023531 sections39 chapters
Chapter XV CONDITIONS REQUISITE FOR INITIATION OF PROCEEDINGS
Statutory text
- (1) Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, any Magistrate of the first class, and any Magistrate of the second class specially empowered in this behalf under sub-section (2), may take cognizance of any offence—
- (a) upon receiving a complaint of facts, including any complaint filed by a person authorised under any special law, which constitutes such offence;
- (b) upon a police report (submitted in any mode including electronic mode) of such facts;
- (c) upon information received from any person other than a police officer, or upon his own knowledge, that such offence has been committed.
- (2) The Chief Judicial Magistrate may empower any Magistrate of the second class to take cognizance under sub-section (1) of such offences as are within his competence to inquire into or try.
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