Section 12
Offences to be tried summarily.
The Essential Defence Services Act, 2021
About this Act
An Act to provide for the maintenance of essential defence services so as to secure the security of nation and the life and property of public at large and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
12. Offences to be tried summarily.—Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), all offences under this Act shall be tried in a summary way by any
Metropolitan Magistrate or any Judicial Magistrate of the first class, specially empowered in this behalf by
the State Government and the provisions of sections 262 to 265 (inclusive) of the said Code shall, as far as
may be, apply to such trial:
Provided that in a case of conviction for any offence in a summary trial under this section, it shall be lawful for such Magistrate to pass a sentence of imprisonment for any term for which such offence is punishable under this Act.
Provided that in a case of conviction for any offence in a summary trial under this section, it shall be lawful for such Magistrate to pass a sentence of imprisonment for any term for which such offence is punishable under this Act.