Section 4 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973

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Section 4 Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – Sec 4 Crpc

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4. Trial of offences under the Indian Penal Code and other laws.—(1) All offences under the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) shall be investigated, inquired into, tried, and otherwise dealt with according to the provisions hereinafter contained.

(2) All offences under any other law shall be investigated, inquired into, tried, and otherwise dealt with according to the same provisions, but subject to any enactment for the time being in force regulating the manner of place of investigating, inquiring into, trying or otherwise dealing with such offences.

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STATE AMENDMENT

Manipur

In section 4 of the principal Act, the clauses (a) and (b) shall be re-arranged as follows, namely:– “(a) to such class or category of the members of the Forces charged with the maintenance of public order, or

(b) to such class or category of other public servants of the Forces persons to whom the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) apply) charged with the maintenance or public order, as may be specified in the notification, wherever they may be serving, and thereupon the provisions of sub-section (2) shall apply as if for the expression ‘Central Government’ occurring therein, the expression, ‘State Government’ were substituted.”

[Vide Manipur Act 10 of 1983, s. 4]

In relation to trial of the offences specified in clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 4 of this Act, any reference to a Magistrate in Chapters XIX and XX of the Code shall be construed as reference to a Specified Execution Magistrate and the expression “Any Magistrate in the Sixth Column of the First Schedule to the Code shall include Specified Executive Magistrate.

[Vide Manipur Act 3 of 1985, s. 4(2) and The Schedule]

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