CrPC: Chapter 14: Conditions requisite for Initiation of proceedings
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
- Section 190. Cognizance of offences by Magistrates
- Section 191. Transfer on application of the accused
- Section 192. Making over of cases to Magistrates
- Section 193. Cognizance of offences by Courts of Session
- Section 194. Additional and Assistant Sessions Judges to try cases made over to them
- Section 195. Prosecution for contempt of lawful authority of public servants, for offences against public justice and for offences relating to documents given in evidence
- Section 195A. Procedure for witnesses in case of threatening, etc
- Section 196. Prosecution for offences against the State and for criminal conspiracy to commit such offence
- Section 197. Prosecution of Judges and public servants
- Section 198. Prosecution for offences against marriage
- Section 198A. Prosecution of offences under section 498A of the Indian Penal Code
- Section 199. Prosecution for defamation
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