(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Sanhita\u2014
(a) any Chief Judicial Magistrate;
(b) Magistrate of the first class,
shall try in a summary way all or any of the following offences:\u2014
(i) theft, under section 301, section 303 or section 304 of the Bharatiya
Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 where the value of the property stolen does not exceed
twenty thousand rupees;
(ii) receiving or retaining stolen property, under section 315 of the
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, where the value of the property does not exceed
twenty thousand rupees;
(iii) assisting in the concealment or disposal of stolen property under
section 315 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, where the value of such
property does not exceed twenty thousand rupees;
(iv) offences under section 330 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023;
(v) insult with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, under section 350,
and criminal intimidation, under section 349 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,
2023;
(vi) abetment of any of the foregoing offences;
(vii) an attempt to commit any of the foregoing offences, when such
attempt is an offence;
(viii) any offence constituted by an act in respect of which a complaint
may be made under section 20 of the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871.
(2) The Magistrate may, after giving the accused a reasonable opportunity of being
heard, for reasons to be recorded in writing, try in a summary way all or any of the offences
not punishable with death or imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term exceeding
three years.
(3) When, in the course of a summary trial it appears to the Magistrate that the nature
of the case is such that it is undesirable to try it summarily, the Magistrate shall re-call any
witnesses who may have been examined and proceed to re-hear the case in the manner
provided by this Sanhita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Sanhita\u2014(a) any Chief Judicial Magistrate;(b) Magistrate of the first class,shall try in a summary way all or any of the following offences:\u2014(i) theft, under section 301, section 303 or section 304 of the BharatiyaNyaya Sanhita, 2023 where the value of the property stolen does not exceedtwenty thousand rupees;(ii) receiving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[125,124,134,132,130,136,137,126,127,123,129,128,133,111,135,112,121,122,113,114,131],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-bnss","tag-bharatiya-nagarik-suraksha-sanhita-2023","tag-bhartiya-nagrik-suraksha-sanhita","tag-bnss-2024-india","tag-bnss-all-sections","tag-bnss-bare-act","tag-bnss-chapter-wise-sections","tag-bnss-fir-section","tag-bnss-full-form","tag-bnss-pdf-download","tag-bnss-sections-in-hindi","tag-bnss-sections-list","tag-bnss-vs-crpc","tag-crpc-replaced-by-bnss","tag-expert-vakil","tag-expert-vakil-bnss","tag-expertvakil","tag-indian-kanoon","tag-indiankanoon","tag-ishan-tathagat","tag-ishantathagat","tag-new-criminal-law-india"],"yoast_head":"\n