law: Official Secrets Act, 1923 
  13. Restriction on trial of offences 
  (1) No Court (other than that of a Magistrate
  
  of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the 23[appropriate
  
  Government] which is inferior to that of a District or Presidency Magistrate
  
  shall try any offence under this Act.
  (2) If any person under trial before a
  
  Magistrate for an offence under this Act. at any time before a charge is framed
  
  claims to be tried by the Court of Session, the Magistrate shall, if he does
  
  not discharge the accused, commit the case for trial by that Court,
  
  notwithstanding that it is not a case exclusively triable by that Court.
  (3) No Court shall take cognizance of any
  
  offence under this Act unless upon complaint made by order of, or under
  
  authority from the 24[appropriate Government] 25[***] or some officer empowered
  
  by the 23[appropriate Government] in this behalf.
  26[***]
  (4) For the purposes of the trial of a person
  
  for an offence under this Act, the offence may be deemed to have been committed
  
  either at the place in which the same actually was committed or at any place in
  
  12[India] in which the offender may be found.
  27[5) In this section, the appropriate
  
  Government means-
  (a) in relation to any
  
  offences under section 5 not connected with a prohibited place or with a
  
  foreign power, the State Government; and
  (b) in relation to any
  
  other offence, the Central Government.].