Description

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Code, the following Magistrates may, if they think fit, try in a summary way all or any of the following offences:

1. Any Chief Judicial Magistrate
2. Any Metropolitan Magistrate
3. Any Magistrate of the First Class specially empowered in this behalf by the High Court

Offences Triable Summarily

• Offences not punishable with death, imprisonment for life, or imprisonment exceeding two years.
• Theft under sections 379, 380, or 381 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), where the value of the stolen property does not exceed two hundred rupees.
• Receiving or retaining stolen property under section 411 of the IPC, where the value of the property does not exceed two hundred rupees.
• Assisting in the concealment or disposal of stolen property under section 414 of the IPC, where the value does not exceed two hundred rupees.
• Offences under sections 454 and 456 of the IPC.
• Insult with intent to provoke a breach of peace under section 504 of the IPC.
• Criminal intimidation, punishable with imprisonment up to two years, or with fine, or both, under section 506 of the IPC.
• Abetment of any of the above offences.
• Attempt to commit any of the above offences, if such attempt is an offence.
• Any offence under section 20 of the Cattle-Trespass Act, 1871 (1 of 1871).

Procedure When Summary Trial is Deemed Inappropriate

If, in the course of a summary trial, the Magistrate considers that the nature of the case makes it undesirable to try it summarily, he shall recall any witnesses already examined and proceed to re-hear the case as per the provisions of this Code.