Section 362 Earlier CrPC 323
Procedure when after commencement of inquiry or trial, Magistrate finds case should be committed
Chapter 26: General provisions as to inquiries and trials
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.
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 359Compounding of offencesCrPC 320
- 360Withdrawal from prosecutionCrPC 321
- 361Procedure in cases which Magistrate cannot dispose ofCrPC 322
- 363Trial of persons previously convicted of offences against coinage, stamp-law or propertyCrPC 324
- 364Procedure when Magistrate cannot pass sentence sufficiently severeCrPC 325
- 365Conviction or commitment on evidence partly recorded by one Magistrate and partly by anotherCrPC 326