Credit Information Companies (Regulation) Act, 2005
24. Cognizance of
offences.-
1.
No
court shall take cognizance of any offence committed by a member of a credit
information company and punishable under section 23 except upon a complaint in
writing made by an officer of the credit information company generally or
specially authorised in writing in this behalf by the credit information
company or if so directed by the Reserve Bank so to do and no court other than
that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class
or any court superior thereto shall try any such offence.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this
sub-section, "member of a credit information company" shall mean a
member referred to in section 15.
1.
2.
No
court shall take cognizance of any offence committed by a credit information
company punishable under section 23 except upon a complaint in writing made by
an officer of the Reserve Bank generally or specially authorised in writing in
this behalf by the Reserve Bank and no court other than that of a Metropolitan
Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or any court superior
thereto shall try any such offence.