Section 39: Supreme Court.

Subject to the provisions of the Courts Act, 1965, and to the powers of transfer conferred by the section 43, the place for the investigation and trial of offences by Courts other than the Supreme Court shall be determined according to the following rules— a. An offence shall be enquired into and tried in the Judicial District in which it was committed. b. When a person is accused of the commission of any offence by reason of anything which has been done or of anything which has been omitted to be done, and of any consequence which has ensued, such offence may be enquired into or tried in any district in which any such thing has been done or omitted to be done, or any such consequence has ensued. c. When an act is an offence by reason of its relation to another act which is also an offence, or which would be an offence if the doer were capable of committing an offence, a charge of the first-mentioned offense may be enquired into or tried in the District in which either act was done. d. In any of the following cases, that is to say— i. when it is uncertain in which of several Districts an offence was committed; or ii. when an offence is committed partly in one District and partly in another; or iii. when an offence is a continuing one, and continues to be committed in more Districts than one; or iv. (when it consists of several acts done in different Districts, the offence may enquired into and tried in any one of such Districts.