Section 23. Subordination of Executive Magistrates.— (1) All Executive Magistrates, other than the Additional District Magistrate, shall be subordinate to the District...

Section 22. Local Jurisdiction of Executive Magistrates.— (1) Subject to the control of the State Government, the District Magistrate may, from time...

Section 21. Special Executive Magistrates.—The State Government may appoint, for such term as it may think fit, Executive Magistrates, to be known...

Section 20. Executive Magistrates.—(1) In every district and in every metropolitan area, the State Government may appoint as many persons as it...

Section 19. Subordination of Metropolitan Magistrates. — (1) The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and every Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate shall be subordinate to...

Section 18. Special Metropolitan Magistrates.— (1) The High Court may, if requested by the Central or State Government so to do, confer...

Section 17. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.— (1) The High Court shall, in relation to every metropolitan area within...

Section 16. Courts of Metropolitan Magistrates.— (1) In every metropolitan area, there shall be established as many Courts of Metropolitan Magistrates, and...

Section 15. Subordination of Judicial Magistrates.— (1) Every Chief Judicial Magistrate shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge; and every other Judicial...

Section 14. Local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates.— (1) Subject to the control of the High Court, the Chief Judicial Magistrate may, from...

13. Special Judicial Magistrates.— (1) The High Court may, if requested by the Central or State Government so to do, confer upon...

Section 12. Chief Judicial Magistrate and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, etc.— (1) In every district (not being a metropolitan area), the High...

Section 11. Courts of Judicial Magistrates.— (1) In every district (not being a metropolitan area) there shall be established as many Courts...

Section 10. Subordination of Assistant Sessions Judges.—(1) All Assistant Sessions Judges shall be subordinate to the Sessions Judge in whose Court they...

Section 9. Court of Session.— (1) The State Government shall establish a Court of Session for every sessions division.

Section 8. Metropolitan areas.— (1) The State Government may, by notification, declare that, as from such date as may be specified in...

7. Territorial divisions.— (1) Every State shall be a sessions division or shall consist of sessions divisions; and every sessions divisions shall,...

6. Classes of Criminal Courts.— Besides the High Courts and the Courts constituted under any law, other than this Code, there shall...

5. Saving.— Nothing contained in this Code shall, in the absence of a specific provision to the contrary, affect any special or...

4. Trial of offences under the Indian Penal Code and other laws.—(1) All offences under theIndian Penal Code (45 of 1860) shall...