190. Cognizance of offence by Magistrate

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(1) Except as hereinafter provided, any Presidency Magistrate, District Magistrate or Sub-divisional Magistrate, and any other Magistrate specially empowered in this behalf, may take cognizance of any offence -

(a) upon receiving a complaint of facts which constitute such offence :

(b) upon a report in writing of such facts made by any police-officer;]

(c) upon information received from any person other than a police-officer, or upon his own knowledge or suspicion, that such offence has been committed.

(2) The [State Government], or the District Magistrate subject to the general or special orders of the [State Government], may empower any Magistrate to take cognizance under sub-section (1), clause (a) or clause (b), of offences for which he may try or commit for trial.

(3) The [State Government] may empower any Magistrate of the first or second class to take cognizance under sub-section (1), clause (c), of offences for which he may try or commit for trial. ---