https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310018 Section 410 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 empowers the Chief Judicial Magistrate, and by parity the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, to withdraw a case earlier made over and reassign it on judicial grounds, not merely for administrative redistribution. The requirement of recording reasons under section 412 supports this wider reading. On the stated facts, where two prosecutions arose from the same raid, shared witnesses and evidence, and the connected case had already ended in acquittal with adverse findings on the investigation, withdrawal of the second case was treated as proper and expedient in the interests of justice. en-us Mon, 05 Nov 1979 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:14:45 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310018 Section 410 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 empowers the Chief Judicial Magistrate, and by parity the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, to withdraw a case earlier made over and reassign it on judicial grounds, not merely for administrative redistribution. The requirement of recording reasons under section 412 supports this wider reading. On the stated facts, where two prosecutions arose from the same raid, shared witnesses and evidence, and the connected case had already ended in acquittal with adverse findings on the investigation, withdrawal of the second case was treated as proper and expedient in the interests of justice. Case-Laws Customs Mon, 05 Nov 1979 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310018