law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  196.Prosecution for offences against the State and for criminal conspiracy
  
  to commit such offence.-
  (1) No Court shall take cognizance
  
  of -
  (a) any offence punishable under Chapter VI or under section 153A, section
  
  153B, section 295A or section 505 of the Indian Penal Code, (45 of 1860) or
  (b) a criminal conspiracy to commit such offence, or
  (c)any such abetment, as is described in section 108A of the Indian Penal
  
  Code,(45 of 1860) except with the previous sanction of the Central Government
  
  or of the State Government.
  (2) No Court shall take cognizance of the
  
  offence of any criminal conspiracy punishable under section 120B of the Indian
  
  Penal Code, (45 of 1860) other than a criminal conspiracy to commit a
  
  cognizable offence punishable with death, imprisonment for life or rigorous
  
  imprisonment for a term of two years or upwards, unless the State Government or
  
  the District Magistrate has consented in writing to the initiation of the
  
  proceedings:
  
  Provided that where the criminal conspiracy is one to which the
  
  provisions of section 195 apply, no such consent shall be necessary.
  (3) The Central Government or the State Government may, before according
  
  sanction under sub-section (1) and the State Government or the District
  
  Magistrate may, before giving consent under sub-section (2), order a
  
  preliminary investigation by a police officer not being below the rank of
  
  Inspector, in which case such police officer shall have the powers referred to
  
  in sub-section (3) of section 155.