https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=42021 Where a Special Court for Economic Offences is constituted with statewide jurisdiction to try specified offences, including Customs Act offences, the ordinary jurisdiction of the Sessions Court to entertain bail or anticipatory bail applications in those cases is impliedly excluded. The Special Judge, being the court specially empowered to try the offence, alone is competent to decide such applications. The Sessions Judge therefore had no jurisdiction to grant bail or anticipatory bail, and jurisdiction lay exclusively with the Special Judge for Economic Offences. en-us Mon, 23 Mar 1987 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:28:38 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=42021 Where a Special Court for Economic Offences is constituted with statewide jurisdiction to try specified offences, including Customs Act offences, the ordinary jurisdiction of the Sessions Court to entertain bail or anticipatory bail applications in those cases is impliedly excluded. The Special Judge, being the court specially empowered to try the offence, alone is competent to decide such applications. The Sessions Judge therefore had no jurisdiction to grant bail or anticipatory bail, and jurisdiction lay exclusively with the Special Judge for Economic Offences. Case-Laws Customs Mon, 23 Mar 1987 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=42021