Section-33A of CrPC: Higher powers of certain Magistrates

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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

(ACT NO. V OF 1898)

 PART II

CONSTITUTION AND POWERS OF CRIMINAL COURTS AND OFFICES

CHAPTER III

POWERS OF COURTS

B.-Sentences which may be passed by courts of various Classes



Higher powers of certain Magistrates

33A. The Court of a Magistrate, specially empowered under section 29C, may pass any sentence authorized by law, except a sentence of death or of transportation or imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years.

 

 

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