CrPC 17 — Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

Statutory text

(1) The High
Court  shall,  in  relation  to every  metropolitan  area  within  its  local  jurisdiction,  appoint  a  Metropolitan Magistrate to be the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate for such metropolitan area.
(2) The High Court may appoint any Metropolitan Magistrate to be an Additional Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate, and  such  Magistrate  shall  have  all  or  any  of  the  powers  of  a  Chief Metropolitan  Magistrate under this Code or under any other law for the time being in force as the High Court may direct.

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