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Section 6B – The Anti-Hijacking Act,1982

The Anti-Hijacking Act,1982

6B. Offences triable by Designated Courts

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure,1973,

(a) all offences under this Act shall be triable only by the Designated Court specified under sub-section (1) of section 6A ;

(b) where a person accused of or suspected of the commission of an offence under this Act is forwarded to a Magistrate under sub-section (2) or sub-section (2A) of section 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,1973, such Magistrate may authorise the detention of such person in such custody as he thinks fit for a period not exceeding fifteen days in the whole where such Magistrate is a Judicial Magistrate and seven days in the whole where such Magistrate is an Executive Magistrate:

Provided that where such Magistrate considers,

(i) when such person is forwarded to him as aforesaid ; or

(ii) upon or at any time before the expiry of the period of detention authorised by him, that the detention of such person in unnecessary, he shall order such person to be forwarded to the Designated Court having jurisdiction;

(c) the Designated Court may exercise, in relation to the person forwarded to it under clause (b), the same power which a Magistrate having jurisdiction to try a case may exercise under section 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,1973, in relation to an accused person in such case who has been forwarded to him under that section;

(d) a Designated Court may, upon a perusal of a complaint made by an officer of the Central Government or the State Government as the case may be authorised in this behalf take cognizance of that offence without the accused being committed to it for trial.

(2) When trying an offence under this Act, a Designated Court may also try an offence other than an offence under this Act, with which the accused may, under the Code of Criminal Procedure,1973, be charged at the same trial.

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