The EXTRADITION ACT, 1962

EXTRADITION OF FUGITIVE CRIMINALS TO FOREIGN STATE TO WHICH CHAPTER III DOES NOT APPLY

Section 5: Order for magisterial inquiry.

Where such requisition is made, the Central Government may, if it thinks fit, issue an order to any Magistrate who would have had jurisdiction to inquire into the offence if it had been an offence committed within the local limits of his jurisdiction directing him to inquire into the case.