Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter XV: Conditions Requisite For Initiation Of Proceedings

Section 212 BNSS: Making over of cases to Magistrates

Corresponding CrPC: Section 192 CrPC

Bare Act text

(1) Any Chief Judicial Magistrate may, after taking cognizance of an offence, make over the case for inquiry or trial to any competent Magistrate subordinate to him.

(2) Any Magistrate of the first class empowered in this behalf by the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, after taking cognizance of an offence, make over the case for inquiry or trial to such other competent Magistrate as the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, by general or special order, specify, and thereupon such Magistrate may hold the inquiry or trial.

Text as enacted in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023), in force from 1 July 2024. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

Allows a Chief Judicial Magistrate, after taking cognizance, to make over the case for inquiry or trial to a competent subordinate Magistrate. A first-class Magistrate so empowered by the Chief Judicial Magistrate may likewise make over a case to another competent Magistrate the Chief Judicial Magistrate specifies.