Classes of Criminal Courts
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Summary
Apart from High Courts and any courts set up by other laws, every State must have four classes of criminal courts: Courts of Session, Judicial Magistrates of the first class, Judicial Magistrates of the second class, and Executive Magistrates. These are the basic tiers through which criminal matters are tried or handled under this Sanhita. The list defines which courts may exercise criminal jurisdiction in the State.
Example
Priya files an FIR after her neighbourhood shop is robbed. If the offence is serious it will be tried in a Court of Session; less serious offences will be dealt with by a Judicial Magistrate of the first or second class, while an Executive Magistrate may handle urgent preventive or administrative orders.
Bare Act
Enacted textBesides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law, other than this Sanhita, there shall be, in every State, the following classes of Criminal Courts, namely:-
(i) Courts of Session;
(ii) Judicial Magistrates of the first class;
(iii) Judicial Magistrates of the second class; and
(iv) Executive Magistrates.
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