Section 4. Special Courts to cease to exercise jurisdiction with respect to certain cases and transfer of pending cases

4. Special Courts to cease to exercise jurisdiction with respect to certain cases and transfer of pending cases.— (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 7 of the principal Act but subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), after the commencement of this Act, a Special Court shall not take cognizance of, or have or exercise any jurisdiction with respect to, any offence other than an offence mentioned in or connected with an offence mentioned in the Schedule to the principal Act as substituted by section 3 of this Act. (2) Every case which is pending immediately before the commencement of this Act before any Special Court and which is in respect of an offence other than an offence mentioned in, or connected with an offence mentioned in, the Schedule to the principal Act as substituted by section 3 of this Act shall, as soon as may be after such commencement, be transferred to the principal Act to take cognizance thereof and the court to which the case is so transferred may proceed with the case from the stage at which it was at the time of such transfer as if it had originally taken cognizance of the case and the case was pending with it at that time. (3) This section shall be read as one with the principal Act and words and expressions used in this section shall be construed accordingly. 4. Establishment of Special Courts.— (1) For the purpose of providing for speedy trial of scheduled offences committed in a judicial zone, the Central Government may establish, by notification, a Special Court in relation to such judicial zone— - (a) within such judicial zone; or (b) if the Central Government having regard to the exigencies of the situation in such judicial zone considers it expedient so to do, at any place outside such judicial zone but within the State in which such judicial zone is situated. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), if, having regard to the exigencies of the situation prevailing in a State, the State Government is of the opinion that it is expedient to establish in relation to a judicial zone, or in relation to two or more judicial zones, in the State, an Additional Special Court outside the State, for the trial of such scheduled offences committed in the judicial zone or judicial zones, the trial whereof within the State— (a) is not likely to be fair or impartial or completed with utmost dispatch; or (b) is not likely to be feasible without occasioning a breach of peace or grave risk to the safety of the accused, the witnesses, the Public Prosecutor and the Judge or any of them; or - (c) is not otherwise in the interests of justice, the State Government may request the Central Government to establish in relation to such judicial zone or judicial zones an Additional Special Court outside the State and thereupon the Central Government may, after taking into account the information furnished by the State Government and making such inquiry, if any, as it may deem fit, establish, by notification, such Additional Special Court at such place outside the State as may be specified in the notification.