Power of a Chief Judicial and a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

  In addition to whatever is stated above these powers are:

(i) To define the local jurisdiction of Judicial Magistrates;

(ii) To control and supervise the work of other Judicial Magistrates who are all subordinate to him and to distribute business among them;

(iii) To determine claims or objections to property attached or to make it over for disposal to any other Judicial Magistrate;

(iv) To require the postal authority to deliver postal articles necessary for investigation, etc., and to grant warrant to search for such articles;

(v) To release persons imprisoned for failure to give security;

(vi) To make over to a subordinate Magistrate for trial any case of which he or she has taken  cognizance or to transfer a case from any Magistrate who has taken cognizance of it to another Magistrate, on application of the accused;

(vii) To receive from another court or Magistrate, a commission for the examination of a witness within his jurisdiction.

(viii) To receive a case from another Magistrate if he/she if of the opinion, upon the evidence, that the case should be tried by the Chief Judicial Magistrate or where the trying Magistrate cannot pass a sentence sufficiently severe;

(ix) To withdraw or recall any case which he /she has made over to any subordinate Magistrate. 

   Earlier the same topic  just before the topic " Maximum sentences which different classes of courts can pass"has only three points so the present is in the complete form.