No Judge or Magistrate shall, except with the permission of the Court to which an appeal lies from his Court, try or commit for trial any case to or in which he is a party, or personally interested, and no Judge or Magistrate shall hear an appeal from any judgment or order passed or made by himself.
Explanation. A Judge or Magistrate shall not be deemed to be a party to, or
personally interested in, any case by reason only that he is concerned therein
in a public capacity, or by reason only that he has viewed the place in which an
offence is alleged to have been committed, or any other place in which any other
transaction material to the case is alleged to have occurred, and made an
inquiry in connection with the case.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
471 CrPC Exclusion of date on which Court is closed
473 CrPC Extension of period of limitation in certain cases
474 CrPC Trials before High Courts
475 CrPC Delivery to commanding officers of persons liable to be tried by Court-martial
477 CrPC Power of High Court to make rules
478 CrPC Power to alter functions allocated to Executive Magistrate in certain cases
479 CrPC Case in which Judge or Magistrate is personally interested
480 CrPC Practising pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts