Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Section 17

CrPC 17 in BNSS: no corresponding section

Section 17 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 was not carried into the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023: no BNSS section corresponds to it. CrPC 17 deals with chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita came into force on 1 July 2024, replacing the CrPC. Its full text is set out below.

Code of Criminal Procedure

CrPC 17 has no counterpart in the BNSS.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate · It was not carried into the 2023 code.

Dropped
Old · CrPC 1973 · Ch. II
s. 17
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
(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.
Text from the official India Code PDF
CrPC 16 · Courts of Metropolitan MagistratesCrPC 18 · Special Metropolitan Magistrates

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