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CHAPTER XXXVII MISCELLANEOUS

Section 479: Case in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

No Judge or Magistrate shall, except with the permission of the Court to which an appeal lies from his Court, try or commit for trial any case to or in which he is a party, or personally interested, and no Judge or Magistrate shall hear an appeal from any judgment or order passed or made by himself.

Explanation.—A Judge or Magistrate shall not be deemed to be a party to, or personally interested in, any case

by reason only that he is concerned therein in a public capacity, or by reason only that he has viewed the place in

which an offence is alleged to have been committed, or any other place in which any other transaction material to

the case is alleged to have occurred, and made an inquiry in connection with the case.

Now in the BNSS

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

479. Cases in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested.BNSS 525

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