law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  326.Conviction or commitment on evidence partly recorded by one Magistrate
  
  and partly by another.-
  (1) Whenever any Magistrate, after having
  
  heard and recorded the whole or any part of the evidence in an inquiry or a
  
  trial, ceases to exercise jurisdiction therein and is succeeded by another
  
  Magistrate who has and who exercises such jurisdiction, the Magistrate so
  
  succeeding may act on the evidence so recorded by his predecessor, or partly
  
  recorded by his predecessor and partly recorded by himself:
  
  Provided that if the succeeding Magistrate is of opinion that further
  
  examination of any of the witnesses whose evidence has already been recorded is
  
  necessary in the interests of justice, he may re-summon any such witness, and
  
  after such further examination, cross-examination and re-examination, if any,
  
  as he may permit, the witness shall be discharged.
  (2) When a case is transferred under the provisions of this Code from one
  
  Magistrate to another Magistrate, the former shall be deemed to cease to
  
  exercise jurisdiction therein, and to be succeeded by the latter, within the
  
  meaning of sub-section (1).
  (3) Nothing in this section applies to summary trials or to cases in which
  
  proceedings have been stayed under section 322 or in which proceedings have
  
  been submitted tom a superior Magistrate under section 325.