(b) Prosecution for certain offences against public justice. of any offence punishable
under any of the following sections of the same Code, namely, sections 193, 194, 195,
196, 199, 200, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211 and 228, when such offence is alleged
to have been committed in, or in relation to, any proceeding in any Court, except on the
complaint in writing of such Court or of some other Court to which such Court is
subordinate; or
(c) Prosecution for certain offences relating to documents given in evidence. of any
offence described in section 463 or punishable under section 471, section 475 or section
476 of the same Code, when such offence is alleged to have been committed by a party
to any proceeding in any Court in respect of a document produced or given in evidence
in such proceeding, except on the complaint in writing of such Court, or of some other
Court to which such Court is subordinate.]
(2) In clauses (b) and (c) of subsection (1), the term "Court" 1[includes] a Civil, Revenue or
Criminal Court, but does not include a Registrar or SubRegistrar under the 2[Registration Act,
1908 (XVI of 1908)].
3[(3) For the purposes of this section, a Court shall be deemed to be subordinate to the Court to
which appeals ordinarily lie from the appealable decrees or sentences of such former Court, or in
the case of a Civil Court from whose decrees no appeal ordinarily lies to the principal Court having
ordinary original civil jurisdiction within the local limits of whose jurisdiction such Civil Court is
situate :
Provided that __
(a) where appeals lie to more than one Court, the Appellate Court of inferior jurisdiction
shall be the Court to which such Court shall be deemed to be subordinate; and
(b) where appeals lie to a Civil and also to a Revenue Court, such Court shall be deemed to
be subordinate to the Civil or Revenue Court according to the nature of the case or
proceeding in connection with which the offence is alleged to have been committed.]
4[(4)]The provisions of subsection (1), with reference to the offences named therein, apply also
to 5[criminal conspiracies to commit such offences and to] the abetment of such offences, and
attempts to commit them.
1 Subs. ibid., for “means”.
2 Subs. by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (12 of 1972), s.2 and Sch for “Indian Registration Act, 1877."
3 Subs. by Act 18 of 1923, s. 47 for the original subsection (7), renumbered as subsection (3).
4 The original subsection (3) was renumbered as subsection (4) by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1923 (18 of 1923) s. 47.
5 Ins. by the Criminal Law Amendement Act, 1913 (8 of 1913), s. 4.
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