6.
Classes Criminal Courts. Besides the High Courts and the
Courts constituted under any law, other than this Code, there shall
be, in every State, the following classes of Criminal Courts, namely:(i)
Courts of Session ;
(ii) Judicial Magistrates of the first class and,
metropolitan area, Metropolitan Magistrates;
in
any
(iii) Judicial Magistrates of the second class ; and
(iv)
Executive Magistrates.
7.
Territorial divisions.
7. Territorial divisions. (1) Every State shall be a sessions
division or shall consist of sessions divisions; and every sessions
division shall, for the purposes of this Code, be a district or
consist of districts :
Provided that every metropolitan area shall, for
purposes, be a separate sessions division and district.
the
said
(2) The State Government may, after consultation with the High
Court, alter the limits or the number of such divisions and districts.
(3) The State Government may, after consultation with the High
Court, divide any district into sub-divisions and may alter the limits
or the number of such sub-divisions.
(4) The sessions divisions, districts and sub-divisions existing
in a State at the commencement of this Code, shall be deemed to have
been formed under this section.
8.
Metropolitan areas.
8.
Metropolitan areas. (1) The State Government may,
by
notification, declare that, as from such date as may be specified in
the notification, any area in the State comprising a city or town
whose population exceeds one million shall be a metropolitan area for
the purposes of this Code.
(2) As from the commencement of this Code, each of
the
Presidency towns of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras and the city of
Ahmedabad shall be deemed to be declared under sub-section (1) to be a
metropolitan area.
(3) The State Government may, by notification,
extend,
reduce