QUETTA, Nov 23: The Balochistan government has restored executive magisterial powers of deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners with immediate effect.
Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi promulgated the Criminal Procedural Code (CrPC) Amendment Ordinance 2010-III in this regard on Tuesday night.
Under the amended ordinance
all deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners may exercise executive magisterial powers in the province.
Official sources said the ordinance was presented to the governor after its approval by the provincial cabinet because Balochistan assembly was not in session.
Under the law, deputy commissioners and assistant commissioners in all 30 districts of the province would be empowered to hear cases in which the accused could be sentenced for
up to three years.
At least
67 sections of the CrPC have been amended and schedules III and V of criminal procedure 1898 have been amended too.
Now cases of price hike, black marketing and law and order will be decided without any delay in the courts of deputy commissioners and assistant commissioner, benefiting the people.
Executive magisterial powers of deputy and assistant commissioners had been abolished under the Local Bodies Ordinance 2002 issued by the-then president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf who had introduced offices of city, district and town nazims.
Balochistan was the first province to abolish the offices of district, city and town nazims and it has now taken the lead in restoring the executive magisterial powers of the top district and tehsil officers.
Source: Dawn,
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