39. Offences may be tried summarily. -Any Magistrate empowered to try in a summary way the offences specified in sub-section (1) of Sec. 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), may, if an application is made in this behalf by the complainant and the Magistrate thinks, fit, try any offence under this Act in accordance with the provisions contained in Sees. 262 to 265 of that Code, but nothing contained in sub-section (2) of Sec. 262 of that Code shall apply to any such trial. |