BNSS · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
Section 362 — Procedure when after commencement of inquiry or trial, Magistrate finds case should be committed.
Replaces CrPC Section 323.
If, in any inquiry into an offence or a trial before a Magistrate, it appears to him at any stage of the proceedings before signing the judgment that the case is one which ought to be tried by the Court of Session, he shall commit it to that Court under the provisions hereinbefore contained and thereupon the provisions of Chapter XIX shall apply to the commitment so made.
Nearby sections
- 359 Compounding of offences.
- 360 Withdrawal from prosecution.
- 361 Procedure in cases which Magistrate cannot dispose of.
- 363 Trial of persons previously convicted of offences against coinage, stamp-law or property.
- 364 Procedure when Magistrate cannot pass sentence sufficiently severe.
- 365 Conviction or commitment on evidence partly recorded by one Magistrate and partly by another.
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