Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
11. Whenever the High Court shall have given notice of its intention to hold sittings at any place for the exercise of its original Criminal jurisdiction, the Court of Session at such place shall take and cause to be taken the measures prescribed by Sections 336 to 340, both inclusive, of the Code of Criminal Procedure for the summoning of Jurors; and in addition to the persons so summoned as Jurors, the said Court of Session shall, if it shall think needful after communication with the Commanding Officer, cause to be summoned such number of Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers in the Military Service, resident within ten miles of its place of sitting, as the Court shall consider to be necessary to make up the Juries required for the trial of European British subjects charged with offences before the High Court as aforesaid. All Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers so summoned shall be liable to serve on such Juries notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure. But no Commissioned or Non-Commissioned Officer shall be summoned whom his Commanding Officer shall desire to have excused on the ground of urgent military duty, or for any other special military reason. The Juries for the trial of European British subjects as aforesaid, shall be formed in the manner required by the Code of Criminal Procedure and by this Act from the persons summoned under the said Sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and from the Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers summoned as aforesaid, or, if no such Officer have been summoned, then solely from the persons summoned under the same Sections.
Source: India Code