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Cognizance of offence.

(1)

No prosecution for an offence punishable under this Act shall be instituted except on a complaint authorised by the District Magistrate :Provided that where the District Magistrate has improperly or illegally declined to authorise the making of a complaint, the Commissioner may, of his own motion or on application made in this behalf, direct him so to do.

(2)

No court inferior to that of a magistrate of the first class shall try any such offence.

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