Section 346Procedure of [* * *] [Chief Judicial Magistrate] in cases which he cannot dispose of.

s. 346

346. Procedure of [* * *] [Chief Judicial Magistrate] in cases which he cannot dispose of (1) If, in the course of an inquiry or a trial before a [Chief Judicial Magistrate] in any district, the evidence appears to him to warrant a presumption that the case is one which should be tried or 1[sent] for trial by some other [Chief Judicial Magistrate] in such district, he shall stay proceedings and submit the case, with a brief report explaining its nature, to any [Chief Judicial Magistrate]to whom he is subordinate or to such other [Chief Judicial Magistrate], having jurisdiction, as the District [Chief Judicial Magistrate] directs. (2) The Magistrate to whom the case is submitted may, if so empowered, either try the case himself, or refer it to any Magistrate subordinate to him having jurisdiction, or [send] the accused for trial.

1. 394. The word "send" was substituted, for the word "commit" by section 2 and Schedule of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1978 (Ordinance No. XLIX of 1978)