law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  376.No appeal in petty cases.-
  Notwithstanding anything contained in section
  
  374, there shall be no appeal by a convicted person in any of the following
  
  cases, namely:-
  (a) where a High Court passes only a sentence of imprisonment for a term not
  
  exceeding six months or of fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or of both
  
  such imprisonment and fine;
  (b) where a Court of Session or a Metropolitan Magistrate passes only a
  
  sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or of fine not
  
  exceeding two hundred rupees, or of both such imprisonment and fine;
  (c) where a Magistrate of the first class passes only a sentence of fine not
  
  exceeding one hundred rupees; or
  (d) where, in a case tried summarily, a Magistrate empowered to act under
  
  section 260 passes only a sentence of fine not exceeding two hundred rupees:
  
  Provided that an appeal may be brought against any such sentence if any
  
  other punishment is combined with it, but such sentence shall not be appealable
  
  merely on the ground-
  (i) that the person convicted is ordered to
  
  furnish security to keep the peace; or
  (ii) that a direction for imprisonment in default of payment of fine is
  
  included in the sentence; or
  (iii) that more than one sentence of fine is
  
  passed in the case, if the total amount of fine imposed does not exceed the
  
  amount hereinbefore specified in respect of the case.