Criminal Procedure Code
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(3) The offence of stealing anything may be inquired into or
tried by a Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction such
thing was stolen or was possessed by the thief, or by any person
who receives or retains the same knowing or having reason to
believe it to be stolen.
Where scene of offence is uncertain, etc.
125. If—
(a)
when it is uncertain in which of several local areas an
offence was committed;
(b)
where an offence is committed partly in one local area
and partly in another;
(c)
where an offence is a continuing one and continues to
be committed in more local areas than one; or
(d)
where it consists of several acts done in different local
areas,
it may be inquired into and tried by a Court having jurisdiction
over any of such local areas.
Offence committed on a journey
126. An offence committed while the offender is in the course
of performing a journey or voyage may be inquired into or tried
by a Court through or into the local limits of whose jurisdiction
the offender or the person against whom or the thing in respect
of which the offence was committed passed in the course of that
journey or voyage.
When doubt arises High Court to decide
127. Whenever any doubt arises as to the Court by which any
offence should under the preceding provisions of this Chapter be
inquired into or tried the High Court may—
(a)
of its own motion;
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