BNSS 448 — Power of Sessions Judge to transfer cases and appeals.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

(1) Whenever it is made to appear to
a Sessions Judge that an order under this sub-section is expedient for the ends of justice, he may order that
any  particular  case  be  transferred  from  one  Criminal  Court  to  another  Criminal  Court  in  his  sessions
division.
(2) The Sessions Judge may act either on the report of the lower Court, or on the application of a party
interested, or on his own initiative.
(3) The provisions of sub-sections (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (9) of section 447 shall apply in relation to
an  application  to  the  Sessions  Judge  for  an  order  under  sub-section  (1)  as  they  apply  in  relation  to  an
application to the High Court for an order under sub-section (1) of section 447, except that sub-section (7)
of that section shall so apply as if for the word “sum” occurring therein, the words “sum not exceeding ten
thousand rupees” were substituted.

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