Section 368
Power to commit for trial and bind over witnesses.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
Whenever, in the course of any such
investigation or inquiry, it appears that any person has committed in India an offence punishable
under any law in force in India, the court making the investigation or inquiry may (subject to such
rules consistent with this Act as the High Court may from time to time make) cause him to be
arrested, or commit him or hold him to bail to take his trial before the proper court, and may bind over
any person to give evidence at the trial, and may, for the purposes of this section, exercise all its
powers as a criminal court.