BNSS Section 449: Withdrawal of cases and appeals by Sessions Judges
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter 33: Transfer of Criminal Cases
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449.
(1) A Sessions Judge may withdraw any case or appeal from, or recall any case or appeal which he has made over to a Chief Judicial Magistrate subordinate to him.
(2) At any time before the trial of the case or the hearing of the appeal has commenced before the Additional Sessions Judge, a Sessions Judge may recall any case or appeal which he has made over to any Additional Sessions Judge.
(3) Where a Sessions Judge withdraws or recalls case or appeal under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), he may either try the case in his own Court or hear the appeal himself, or make it over in accordance with the provisions of this Sanhita to another Court for trial or hearing, as the case may be.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 446. Power of Supreme Court to transfer cases and appeals
- 447. Power of High Court to transfer cases and appeals
- 448. Power of Sessions Judge to transfer cases and appeals
- 450. Withdrawal of cases by Judicial Magistrates
- 451. Making over or withdrawal of cases by Executive Magistrates
- 452. Reasons to be recorded