Criminal Procedure Code 215 Trials by High Court on a certificate by the Public Prosecutor 418a.  (1)  Notwithstanding section 417 and subject to section 418b, the Public Prosecutor may in any particular case triable by a criminal Court subordinate to the High Court issue a certificate specifying the High Court in which the proceedings are to be instituted or transferred and requiring that the accused person be caused to appear or be produced before such High Court. (2) The power of the Public Prosecutor under subsection (1) shall be exercised by him personally. (3) The certificate of the Public Prosecutor issued under subsection (1) shall be tendered to the subordinate Court before which the case is triable whereupon the Court shall transfer the case to the High Court specified in the certificate and cause the accused person to appear or be brought before such Court as soon as may be practicable. (4) When the accused person appears or is brought before the High Court in accordance with subsection (3), the High Court shall fix a date for his trial which shall be held in accordance with the procedure under Chapter XX. Cases to which section 418a is applicable 418b. Section 418a shall apply to all cases triable under this Code by a criminal Court subordinate to the High Court, whether the proceedings are instituted before or after the coming into force of that section, provided that the accused person has not pleaded guilty and no evidence in respect of the case against him has begun to be adduced. Chapter XLIII IRREGULARITIES IN PROCEEDINGS Proceeding in wrong place, etc. 419. No finding, sentence or order of any criminal Court shall be set aside merely on the ground that the inquiry, trial or other proceedings in the course of which it was arrived at, passed or made, took place in a wrong local area or before a wrong Magistrate or Court, unless it appears that such error occasioned a failure of justice.

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