Section 451 Earlier CrPC 411
Making over or withdrawal of cases by Executive Magistrates
Chapter 33: Transfer of criminal cases
Any District Magistrate or Sub-divisional Magistrate may—
(a) make over, for disposal, any proceeding which has been started before him, to any Magistrate subordinate to him;
(b) withdraw any case from, or recall any case which he has made over to, any Magistrate subordinate to him, and dispose of such proceeding himself or refer it for disposal to any other Magistrate.
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
- 446Power of Supreme Court to transfer cases and appealsCrPC 406
- 447Power of High Court to transfer cases and appealsCrPC 407
- 448Power of Sessions Judge to transfer cases and appealsCrPC 408
- 449Withdrawal of cases and appeals by Sessions JudgesCrPC 409
- 450Withdrawal of cases by Judicial MagistratesCrPC 410
- 452Reasons to be recordedCrPC 412