(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Sanhita—
(a) any Chief Judicial Magistrate;
(b) Magistrate of the first class,
shall try in a summary way all or any of the following offences:—
(i) theft, under section 301, section 303 or section 304 of the Bharatiya
Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 where the value of the property stolen does not exceed
twenty thousand rupees;
(ii) receiving or retaining stolen property, under section 315 of the
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, where the value of the property does not exceed
twenty thousand rupees;
(iii) assisting in the concealment or disposal of stolen property under
section 315 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, where the value of such
property does not exceed twenty thousand rupees;
(iv) offences under section 330 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023;
(v) insult with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, under section 350,
and criminal intimidation, under section 349 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,
2023;
(vi) abetment of any of the foregoing offences;
(vii) an attempt to commit any of the foregoing offences, when such
attempt is an offence;
(viii) any offence constituted by an act in respect of which a complaint
may be made under section 20 of the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871.
(2) The Magistrate may, after giving the accused a reasonable opportunity of being
heard, for reasons to be recorded in writing, try in a summary way all or any of the offences
not punishable with death or imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term exceeding
three years.
(3) When, in the course of a summary trial it appears to the Magistrate that the nature
of the case is such that it is undesirable to try it summarily, the Magistrate shall re-call any
witnesses who may have been examined and proceed to re-hear the case in the manner
provided by this Sanhita.
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