Section 28:
Designation of Special Courts.
(1) For the purposes of providing a speedy trial, the State
Government shall in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court, by notification in the Official
Gazette, designate for each district, a Court of Session to be a Special Court to try the offences under the
Act:
Provided that if a Court of Session is notified as a children's court under the Commissions for
Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005 (4 of 2006) or a Special Court designated for similar purposes under
any other law for the time being in force, then, such court shall be deemed to be a Special Court under
this section.
(2) While trying an offence under this Act, a Special Court shall also try an offence [other than the
offence referred to in subsection (1)], with which the accused may, under the Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) be charged at the same trial.
(3) The Special Court constituted under this Act, notwithstanding anything in the Information
Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000) shall have jurisdiction to try offences under section 67B of that Act in
so far as it relates to publication or transmission of sexually explicit material depicting children in any act,
or conduct or manner or facilitates abuse of children online.