https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192305 A special court under the West Bengal Criminal Law Amendment (Special Courts) Act, 1949 could take cognizance of an allotted case on receipt of the statutory allotment and record, without a complaint or compliance with section 190(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, because the court was not a Magistrate for that purpose and the special statute displaced the ordinary committal requirement. The 1960 amendment to section 5 was procedural rather than declaratory or retrospective, so it did not unsettle proceedings already validly commenced under the unamended Act. The special court's jurisdiction therefore remained intact. en-us Wed, 07 Nov 1962 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 24 May 2017 12:44:33 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192305 A special court under the West Bengal Criminal Law Amendment (Special Courts) Act, 1949 could take cognizance of an allotted case on receipt of the statutory allotment and record, without a complaint or compliance with section 190(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, because the court was not a Magistrate for that purpose and the special statute displaced the ordinary committal requirement. The 1960 amendment to section 5 was procedural rather than declaratory or retrospective, so it did not unsettle proceedings already validly commenced under the unamended Act. The special court's jurisdiction therefore remained intact. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 07 Nov 1962 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192305