Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 200, 156(3), 36 -- Investigation by police - Order by Magistrate - Section 156(3) of the Code empowers a Magistrate to direct such officer in charge of the police station to investigate any cognizable case over which such Magistrate has jurisdiction and not a superior police officer...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 173, 156 -- Report u/s 173 - There are three options to the Magistrate namely, (i) to accept the report and take cognizance of the offence and issue process; or (ii) may disagree with the report and drop the proceeding; or (iii) may direct further investigation under Section 156(3) of the Code...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 164 -- Confession - It must be proved that the same was voluntarily made by the maker - It would, of course, be necessary in every case to put the questions prescribed by the High Court circulars but the questions intended to be put under sub-section (2) of Section 164, should not be allowed to become a matter of a mere mechanical..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 164 -- Confession statement - In order to make the confession statement under the Act, it must be proved that the same was voluntarily made by the maker - It would, of course, be necessary in every case to put the questions prescribed by the High Court circulars but the questions intended to be put under sub-section (2) of Section 164..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 25, 27, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154 -- Where the first information report is given by an accused himself to a police officer and amounts to a confessional statement, proof of the confession is prohibited by section 25 of the Evidence Act - No part of the confessional statement can be proved or received in evidence, except to the..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 156(3) -- Application for direction to police to register FIR and investigate - Can be ordered when: (1) full details of the accused are not known to the complainant and the same can be determined only as a result of investigation; (2) where recovery of abducted person or stolen property is required to be made by conducting raids or..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 156(3) -- Court taking cognizance of offence - Thereafter it is not open to the Court to refer the case to police for investigation under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C...........
Punjab Police Rules, 1934, Rule 23.4, 23.9(2) -- History sheet - Persons whose names can be entered in Part I of Register No.10 are : (a) All persons who have been proclaimed under Section 87 Cr.P.C. (b) All released convicts in regard to whom an order under Section 565, Criminal Procedure Code, has been made; (c) all convicts the execution of whose sentence is suspended..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 197, 202 -- Complaint - Public servant - Sanction for prosecution - Raising of plea by accused at enquiry stage - Held, accused in the course of enquiry into a complaint u/s 202 Cr.P.C. and before order has been passed about issuance of process can raise plea under Section 197 Cr.P.C. before the Court by filing such documents which..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 11(2), Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 20,21(1) -- Territorial jurisdiction - Although there is no specific provision in the C.P. Act, 1986 akin to Section 21 of the CPC, 1908, Consumer Fora established under the provisions of the C.P. Act, 1986 have all the trappings of a Civil Court and judicial authority and the proceedings..........
