Bangladesh

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

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

PART VI - PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS

CHAPTER XXIV - GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO INQUIRIES AND TRIALS

347. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Code, whenever a Magistrate of the first class is of opinion, after recording the evidence for the prosecution, that if the accused or, where more accused than one are being tried together, any of such accused is convicted he should receive a punishment more severe than that which such Magistrate is empowered to inflict, he may record his opinion and submit his proceedings, and forward the accused, or all the accused, to the Court of Session to which he is subordinate, whereupon the Court of Session shall try the case as if the case were exclusively triable by it under this Code.

Keywords

Sentencing - national proceedings
Sentencing - national procedures for national proceedings
Determination of sentence - national proceedings
Aggravating factors - national proceedings



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