An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Criminal Procedure.

PART VI - PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS

CHAPTER XV - OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS IN INQUIRIES AND TRIALS

A.—Place of Inquiry or Trial

188. When a citizen of Bangladesh commits an offence at any place without and beyond the limits of Bangladesh, or

When any person commits an offence on any ship or aircraft registered in Bangladesh wherever it may be, he may be dealt with in respect of such offence as if it had been committed at any place within Bangladesh at which he may be found:

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Criminal Procedure.

PART VI - PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS

CHAPTER XV - OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS IN INQUIRIES AND TRIALS

A.—Place of Inquiry or Trial

188 Provided that notwithstanding anything in any of the preceding sections of this Chapter no charge as to any such offence shall be inquired into in Bangladesh except with the sanction of the Government:

Provided, also, that any proceedings taken against any person under this section which would be a bar to subsequent proceedings against such person for the same offence if such offence had been committed in Bangladesh shall be a bar to further proceedings against him under the Extradition Act, 1974, in respect of the same offence in any territory beyond the limits of Bangladesh.