Any offence not punishable with death or imprisonment for life, committed by any person who at the date when he appears or is brought before the Court is under the age of sixteen years, may be tried by the Court of a Chief Judicial Magistrate, or by any Court specially empowered under the Children Act, 1960 (60 of 1960), or any other law for the time being in force providing for the treatment, training and rehabilitation of youthful offenders.
Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)
21 CrPC Special Executive Magistrates
22 CrPC Local jurisdiction of Executive Magistrates
23 CrPC Subordination of Executive Magistrates
25 CrPC Assistant Public Prosecutors
25A CrPC Directorate of Prosecution
26 CrPC Courts by which offences are triable
27 CrPC Jurisdiction in the case of juveniles
28 CrPC Sentences which High Courts and Sessions Judges may pass