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BNSS, 2023
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BNSSChapter XXVIIISection 380
Section380

Appeal

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Summary

When a court below the High Court refuses to record a complaint on an application, or records a complaint against someone, that person may appeal to the superior court to which the lower court is subordinate. After notice to the parties, the superior court can order withdrawal of the complaint or direct the lower court to make the complaint it should have. Such orders are final and not subject to revision.

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Priya asks a magistrate to record a complaint about a neighbour stealing her parcel, but the magistrate refuses. She appeals to the Sessions Court, which after notice orders the magistrate to record the complaint. That order is final and cannot be revised.

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(1) Any person on whose application any Court other than a High Court has refused to make a complaint under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 379, or against whom such a complaint has been made by such Court, may appeal to the Court to which such former Court is subordinate within the meaning of sub-section (4) of section 215, and the superior Court may thereupon, after notice to the parties concerned, direct the withdrawal of the complaint, or, as the case may be, making of the complaint which such former Court might have made under section 379, and, if it makes such complaint, the provisions of that section shall apply accordingly.

(2) An order under this section, and subject to any such order, an order under section 379, shall be final, and shall not be subject to revision.

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XXVIII

Chapter XXVIII

Provisions as to Offences Affecting The Administration of Justice

In this chapter

  • 379Procedure in cases mentioned in section 215
  • 380Appeal
  • 381Power to order costs
  • 382Procedure of Magistrate taking cognizance
  • 383Summary procedure for trial for giving false evidence
  • 384Procedure in certain cases of contempt
  • 385Procedure where Court considers that case should not be dealt with under section 384
  • 386When Registrar or Sub-Registrar to be deemed a Civil Court
  • 387Discharge of offender on submission of apology
  • 388Imprisonment or committal of person refusing to answer or produce document
  • 389Summary procedure for punishment for nonattendance by a witness in obedience to summons
  • 390Appeals from convictions under sections 383, 384, 388 and 389
  • 391Certain Judges and Magistrates not to try certain offences when committed before themselves
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