CrPC Section 11 — Courts of Judicial Magistrates

CHAPTER II CONSTITUTION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES

General

Summary

Sub-section (1) says that in each district outside a metropolitan area, the State Government specifies by notification how many Courts of Judicial Magistrates of the first and second class there will be and where they will be, after consulting the High Court. The State Government may also, after consulting the High Court, establish one or more Special Courts of either class for a local area to try a particular case or class of cases. If it does, no other Magistrate Court in that local area has jurisdiction to try the case or class of cases assigned to that Special Court.

Sub-section (2) says that the High Court appoints the presiding officers of these Courts.

Sub-section (3) says that the High Court may, when it considers this expedient or necessary, give the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of the first or second class to a member of the State’s Judicial Service who is working as a judge in a Civil Court.

Official Text

(1) In every district (not being a metropolitan area) there shall be established as many Courts of Judicial Magistrates of the first class and of the second class, and at such places, as the State Government may, after consultation with the High Court, by notification, specify: 1[Provided that the State Government may, after consultation with the High Court, establish, for any local area, one or more Special Courts of Judicial Magistrates of the first class or of the second class to try any particular case or particular class of cases, and where any such Special Court is established, no other Court of Magistrate in the local area shall have jurisdiction to try any case or class of cases for the trial of which such Special Court of Judicial Magistrate has been established.]

(2) The presiding officers of such Courts shall be appointed by the High Court.

(3) The High Court may, whenever it appears to it to be expedient or necessary, confer the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or of the second class on any member of the Judicial Service of the State, functioning as a Judge in a Civil Court.

Referred to by

CrPC §14 — Local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates

Old <-> New Code Mapping

BNSS §9 — Courts of Judicial Magistrates