Legal Provisions of Section 186 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.), India.
High Court to decide, in case of doubt, district where inquiry or trial shall take place:
This section makes provision for the solution of the difficulties that may arise with regard to the relative jurisdiction of different Courts to dispose of a case. Where two Courts have concurrent jurisdiction to try a case, the mere fact that one of them has taken cognizance of the offence does not preclude the other from taking cognizance of the same offence. In such cases the High Court is empowered to interfere under this section and to declare in which of the two Courts the proceedings should be continued.
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If the Courts are not subordinate to the same High Court, then the question shall be decided by the High Court within the local limits of whose appellate criminal jurisdiction the proceedings were first commenced. Section 186 (b) applies only when both the cases are common and they arise out of the same transaction or occurrence, and the parties are same, in which case, having regard to the circumstances the High Court, within whose local limits of appellate criminal jurisdiction the proceedings have first commenced would have jurisdiction to invoke powers under Section 186 (b) and order consolidation of the subsequent proceedings commenced on the same occurrence elsewhere.