As per Section 190 of the Code Criminal Procedure, 1973, any Magistrate of the First Class, and any Magistrate of the Second Class specially empowered in this behalf, may take cognizance of any offence –
(a) upon receiving a complaint of facts which constitute such offence;
(b) upon a police report of such facts;
(c) upon information received from any person other than a police officer, or upon his own knowledge, that such offence has been committed.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate may empower any Magistrate of the second class to take cognizance of such offences as are within his competence to inquire into or try.