(1) Any person convicted on a lrial held by a Tribunal may appeal to the High Courl.
(2) The Slate Government may direct a public prosecutor to pre .cnt an appeal to the High Courl from an order of acquittal pas ed by a Tribunal.
(3) An appeal nder lhis section shall lie either on a matter of Iacl or on a matter of law or on both.
(4) The period of limitation for an appeal under subsection (1) shall b thirty days from the date of the sentence and for an appeal under s b-section (2) shall be thirty days from the date of the order of acquittal.
(.)) The High Courl may call for the record of the proceeding of any case tried by a Tribunal and may in respect of uch case exercise any I' the powers conferred on a Cor.rt of app al under eclion-385. eClion-386. ection-3E9.
cction 390 and cction 391 of the Code.
10. .10 Court inferior to the High Courl shall have jur.sdiction to lran fer any ea c from a Tribunal or save as otherwi c provided in thi Act. have jurisdiclion of any kind in re p et of any proceedings before a Tribunal:
Provided that no case pending before a Tribunal shall be transferred lo any courl except another Tribunal.
11. The provisi ns of the Code or any other law for the lime being in force, in so far as they may be applicable and in so far as they are not inconsislenl with the provision of thi Act, shall apply to all matters connected with ari ing from, or con cqucnt upon, a trial by a Tribunal con titutcd under thi Ac la' ir the Tribunal were a Courl of Ses ion ex rei ing origin I criminal jurisdi lion.
12. . '0 .uit. pr secution or legal proceeding whatever shall lie again t any person in resp et of anything which is, in good faith, done r intended to be done under this Act.
Act to override other laws.
Cognizance of offence.
Repeal and savings.
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13. The pr 'i ions of this Act hall have effect notwilhstanding anything in this Act which may be inconsistent with the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Code. or any other law.
14. Where. after taking cognizance of any offence a Tribunal is of opinion that the offence i: nol a cheduled offence, it shall transfer the case for Lrial to any court having jurisdiction under the Code and the court to which the case is tran l'crred may proceed with the a ea' if it had taken cognizance of the offence.
15.(1) The Tripura Tribunals of Criminal Juri diction Ordinance, 1980 is hereby repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done. any action taken, all notifications publi sh d, power conferred, forms prescribed, orders, rules and appointment made under the said Ordinance hall I l' deemed re spectively to have been done, taken. published. conferred, pre cribed or made under the cone ponding provi ion of thi Act.
TIlE SCIlEDCLE
1. Offences punishable under ection 121, ection 121 , section 122. section 123, section 124, ection 125, ection 126, section 127, cction 128, section 129 or ection 130 of the Indian Penal Code.
2. An offence punishable under cction 302, ecLion 304, section 307, section 326, section 364, section 365, ection 366, section 376, section 395, section 396, ection 397, ection -135 or section 436 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. An offence punishable under section 302, section 304, section 326, section 307, section 395, section 396, section 397, section 435 or section 436 of the Indian Penal Code, if commitled in course of a raid on or a riot in any human habitation or village or dwelling houses or a factory or a mill or a workshop or a Bank or in relation to transportation of property to or from a factory, mill workshop or Bank.
4. Offences under the following provisions of the Arms Act, 1\)59 :- Sections 25 to 30. ,..
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5. Offences under the f'ollov ng provisions of the Indian Explosive Act, 1884 :- Sections 6(3) to 8(2).
. 6. All offences under the Tripura Security Act, 1980.
7. Any conspIracy to commit or any attempt to commit or any abetment of any of the offences specified in items 1 to 6.