Section 212.   Making over of cases to Magistrates.

(1) Any Chief Judicial Magistrate may, after taking cognizance of an offence,
make over the case for inquiry or trial to any competent Magistrate subordinate to him.
(2) Any Judicial Magistrate of the first class empowered in this behalf by the Chief
Judicial Magistrate may, after taking cognizance of an offence, make over the case for
inquiry or trial to such other competent Judicial Magistrate as the Chief Judicial Magistrate
may, by general or special order, specify, and thereupon such Magistrate may hold the
inquiry or trial.