CrPC Section 17 — Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

CHAPTER II CONSTITUTION OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES

General

Official Text

(1) The High Court shall, in relation to every metropolitan area within its local jurisdiction, appoint a Metropolitan Magistrate to be the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate for such metropolitan area.

(2) The High Court may appoint any Metropolitan Magistrate to be an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, and such Magistrate shall have all or any of the powers of a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate under this Code or under any other law for the time being in force as the High Court may direct.

Related Judgments

  • Mumbai Grahak Panchayat and Another. vs State of Maharashtra and Others., .., –, Shri Uday P. Warunjikar for t — Bombay High Court (Mumbai Principal Seat) (2017)
  • THE AUTHORISED OFFICER, INDIAN BANK vs D. VISALAKSHI AND ANR — Supreme Court of India (2019)
  • TOFAN SINGH vs STATE OF TAMIL NADU — Supreme Court of India (2020)