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Murder cases are tried in the following courts
Answer: C
Murder cases are tried in the Sessions Court. Murder is punishable with death or life imprisonment under section 302 IPC, and the Code of Criminal Procedure makes such offences triable exclusively by a Court of Session.
A Chief Judicial Magistrate and a Metropolitan Magistrate of the 1st class can try only offences with limited punishment, and cannot pass a sentence of death or life imprisonment. The High Court can try a murder case only as a trial court in rare cases, so it is not where such cases are ordinarily tried. The reason for this rule is the gravity of the punishment, and so the case goes to the highest trial court of the district and not to a magistrate.
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