Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
10.Subordination of Assistant Sessions Judges.-
(1) All Assistant Sessions Judges shall be
subordinate to the Sessions Judge in whose Court they exercise jurisdiction.
(2) The Sessions Judge may, from time to time, make rules consistent with this
Code, as to the distribution of business among such Assistant Sessions Judges.
(3) The Sessions Judge may also make provision for the disposal of any urgent
application, in the event of his absence or inability to act, by an Additional
or Assistant Sessions Judge, or, if there be no Additional or Assistant
Sessions Judge, by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, and every such Judge or
Magistrate shall be deemed to have jurisdiction to deal with any such
application.