CrPC · Chapter II · Constitution of criminal courts and offices
CrPC section 16, “Courts of Metropolitan Magistrates”, was not carried into the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, which replaced the CrPC on 1 July 2024.
Not carried into the BNSS, which abolishes Metropolitan Magistrates.
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
(1) In every metropolitan area, there shall be established as many Courts of Metropolitan Magistrates, and at such places, as the State Government may, after consultation with the High Court, by notification, specify.
(2) The presiding officers of such Courts shall be appointed by the High Court.
(3) The jurisdiction and powers of every Metropolitan Magistrate shall extend throughout the metropolitan area.
The texts are India Code’s. The amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed; State amendments are not shown. The PDFs linked below carry the full history.
The BNSS repealed the CrPC from 1 July 2024 (section 531(1)). Any appeal, application, trial, inquiry or investigation pending immediately before that date is disposed of under the CrPC as it then stood, as if the BNSS had not come into force (section 531(2)(a)). Anything not pending on that date follows the BNSS.
