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"14. Procedure and Powers of Designated Courts : - (1) A Designated Court may take cognizance of any offence, without the accused being committed to it for trial, upon receiving a complaint of facts which constitute such offence or upon a police report of such facts."

20. So, as per the aforesaid provisions of law a Designated Court was competent to take the cognizance of any offence without the accused being committed to it for trial. As the Hon'ble Apex Court has mentioned in the order dated May 10, 1996 that the trial stands transferred to the Designated Court, Chandigarh and the CBI was directed to file the challan in accordance with the Cr.P.C. before the trial Court at Chandigarh, so the prosecution might be under the belief that the Designated Court at Chandigarh was the trial Court, so, though the present case was under the normal provisions of the Indian Penal Code i.e. 120-B, 364 and 302 IPC, CBI has presented the present challan directly before the learned Sessions Judge who was the then Judge, Designated Court, Chandigarh and the case was assigned to Shri S.S. Lamba, and thereafter it also remained pending before the Additional Judge, Designated Court, Chandigarh. Thus, it appears that the prosecution might be under the impression that the challan was to be directly filed before the Designated Court and as per the provisions of Section 14 of the TADA reproduced above no commitment proceedings were required for a Designated Court to take the cognizance.