Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929
10. Preliminary inquiries into offences
Any Court, on receipt of a complaint of an
offence of which it is authorized to take cognizance, shall, unless it
dismisses the complaint under section 203 of the 11[Code of Criminal Procedure,
1973], either itself make an inquiry under section 202 of that Code or direct a
Magistrate subordinate to it to make such inquiry.]