Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable cognizan Cognizance or under this Act, save on a complaint made by or under the authority ofoffences. the State Government. (2) No court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act. (d) Power to exempt.