Constitution and Powers of Criminal and Executive Courts — Section 6 to 35

A chain-snatching case from Thane can land in front of a Magistrate, while a murder from the same police station goes straight to a Sessions Judge. The summons for a hearing may come from a Judicial Magistrate; the order banning an assembly near a festival procession comes from an officer who is also called a Magistrate but sits in the collector's office. Who are all these people, which of them may punish, and how much? Chapters II and III of the Sanhita answer this: they build the ladder of criminal courts and put a ceiling on each rung.

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Chapter II creates the criminal courts and offices (Sessions, Judicial Magistrates, Executive Magistrates, prosecutors) and Chapter III fixes who can try which offence and the maximum sentence each court may pass.

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