The non-obstante clause in Section 6(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 overrides:
Section 6(1) operates notwithstanding anything contained in s.5(1) of the Act (trial by the warrant-case procedure) or in the provision on the power to try summarily, now…
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The non-obstante clause in Section 6(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 overrides:
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Section 6(1) operates notwithstanding anything contained in s.5(1) of the Act (trial by the warrant-case procedure) or in the provision on the power to try summarily, now section 283 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly s.260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, to which the Act still refers; under s.8(1) of the General Clauses Act, 1897 the reference is read as one to s.283), so both are displaced for these cases. The rest of the Sanhita is not overridden: ss.285 to 288, on summary trials, are expressly applied to the trial as far as may be. Hence "Section 5(1) of the Act and Section 283 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023".