"A" and four of his accomplices who absconded are alleged to have kidnapped "G" from New Delhi taking…
The courts at Kanpur, Gurugram and New Delhi are subordinate to different High Courts, so s.206(b) BNSS (formerly s.186 CrPC) applies, and since cognizance was first taken…
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"A" and four of his accomplices who absconded are alleged to have kidnapped "G" from New Delhi taking and confining her in several places at Gurugram in Haryana from where ransom calls are made and then taken to Uttar Pradesh. After a week, her dead body bearing multiple ante-mortem stab wounds is found at a secluded spot in Kanpur. Cases are registered by police in New Delhi, Gurugram and Kanpur. "A" is arrested by Kanpur police and interrogated leading to recovery of weapon of offence upon his disclosure. The personal articles of "G" are recovered from the place of her confinement in Gurugram. The evidence is shared by the police in each State with their counterparts in other two States. Reports of investigation on such basis under Section 193 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 are filed by police seeking trial of "A" on charge for the offences of kidnapping for ransom and murder in Kanpur, Gurugram, and New Delhi, in that order, cognizance on each such report having been taken by the jurisdictional magistrate summoning "A" as accused. Which of the following statements is correct?
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Correct answer A
The courts at Kanpur, Gurugram and New Delhi are subordinate to different High Courts, so s.206(b) BNSS (formerly s.186 CrPC) applies, and since cognizance was first taken on the Kanpur report, "The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad shall decide as to Court at which place will inquire into or try the offences."
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