Offence under section 10 shall be non-cognizable and offences under sections 17, 18, 19, 21, 29, 30 and 31 shall be cognizable and shall not be triable by any court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the First Class.
CHAPTER IX MISCELLANEOUS
Section 53: Certain offences to be cognizable
The Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999
How current this text is
Text as published by India Code for the Government of Maharashtra, as on 7 March 2025; its footnotes record later changes to other Acts it cites, the latest being Mah. 24 of 2012.
A Maharashtra Rent Control (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (L. A. Bill No. LXXXII of 2025) was introduced in 2025; as of October 2026 no official record shows it passed or published as an Act, so it is not reflected in this text.
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