SECTION 190 CR.P.C. Powers of Magistrates of First Class

--All Magistrates of the First Class, were empowered to take cognizance of any offence---Under S.190(2) Cr.P.C., a Magistrate doing so of an offence triable exclusively by a Court of Session, would, without recording any evidence, send the case to such court for trial---Term “taking cognizance” had been judicially interpreted in its broad and literal sense to mean “taking notice of an offence”.

Ghulam Sarwar    Versus    State
2008 YLR 704
Karachi-High –Court-Sindh