If the departmental criminal court considers, during or after the hearings, that the facts before it constitute a crime punishable by thirty years’ imprisonment or life imprisonment, it refers the case to the assize court. If the accused appeared in custody, he shall remain in pre-trial detention until his appearance before the assize court; otherwise, the departmental criminal court may, after hearing the public prosecutor and the parties or their lawyers, issue, by the same decision, a committal order or arrest warrant against the accused.