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[QUOTE=Waseemtabish;363760]any one have this in pdf file. kindly post the Investigation chapter of Crpc

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Malik Wassim Abbas Tabish[/QUOTE]

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[CENTER][B][U]PART V
INFORMATION TO POLICE AND THEIR POWERS TO INVESTIGATE
CHAPTER XIV[/U][/B] [/CENTER]
154. Information in cognizable cases: information relating to the, commission of a
cognizable offence if given orally to an officer incharge of a police station, shall reduced to
writing by him or under his direction and then read over to the informant and every such
information, whether given in writing or reduced to writing as aforesaid, shall be signed by
the person giving it, and the substance thereof shall be entered in a book to be kept by
such officer in such form as the Provincial Government may prescribe in this behalf:
155. Information in non-cognizable cases: (l) When information is given to an officer
incharge of a police station of the commission within the limits of such station of a non-
cognizable offence, he shall enter in a book to, be kept as aforesaid the substance of such
information and refer the information the Magistrate.
(2) Investigation into non-cognizable cases: No police-officer shall investigate a noncognizable case without the order of a Magistrate of the First or Second Class having
power to try such case [or send the same for trial to the Court of Session].
(3) Any police officer receiving such order may exercise, the, same powers in respect of
the investigation (except the power to arrest without warrant) as an officer incharge of a
police-station may exercise in a cognizable case.
Words subs. by Law Reforms Ordinance. XH of 1972. 156. Investigation into cognizable cases: (1) Any officer incharge of a police-station
may, without the order of a Magistrate, investigate any cognizable case which a Court
having jurisdiction over the local area within the limits of such station would, have power to
inquire into or try under the provisions of Chapter XV relating to the place of inquiry or trial.
(2) No proceeding of a police-office in any such case shall at any stage be called in
question on the ground that the case was one, which such officer was not empowered
under this section to investigate.
Any Magistrate empowered under Section 190 may order such an investigation as above
mentioned.
[(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (2) or (3) no police-officer shall
investigate an offence under Section 497 or Section 498 of the Pakistan Penal Code,
except upon a complaint made by the husband of the woman, or, in his absence by some
person who had the care of such woman on his behalf at the time when such offence was
committed.]
Sub-section (4) added by Law Reforms Ordinance, XII of 1972.
157. Procedure where cognizable offence suspected: (1) If from information received
or otherwise, an officer incharge of a police-station has reason to suspect the commission
of an offence which he is empowered under Section 156 to investigate, he shall forthwith
send a report of the same to a Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of such offence
upon a police-report and shall proceed in person, or shall depute one of his subordinate
officers not being below such rank as the Provincial Government may, by general or
special order, prescribe in this behalf to proceed, to the spot, to investigate the facts and
circumstance of the case, and, if necessary, to take measures for the 'discovery and arrest
of the offender:
Provided as follows: --
(a) Where local investigation dispensed with: When any information as to the
commission of any such offence is given against any person by name and the case is not
of a serious nature, the officer incharge of a police-station need not proceed in person or
depute a subordinate officer to make an investigation on the spot;
(b) Where police-officer incharge sees no sufficient ground for investigation: if it
appears to the officer incharge of a police station that there is no sufficient ground for
entering on an investigation, he shall not investigate the case.
(2) In each of the cases mentioned in clauses (a) and (b) of the proviso to sub-section (1),
the officer incharge of the police-station shall state in his said report his reasons for not
fully complying with the requirements of that sub-section, and, in the case mentioned in
clause (b) such officer shall also forthwith notify to the informant, if any, in such manner as
may be prescribed by the Provincial Government the fact that he will not investigate the
case or cause it to be investigated. 158. Reports under Section 157 how submitted: (1) Every report sent to a Magistrate
under Section 157 snail, if the Provincial Government so, directs, be submitted through
such superior officer of police as the Provincial Government, by general or special order,
appoints in that behalf.
(2) Such superior officer may give such instructions to the officer incharge of the policestation as he thinks fit, and shall, after recording such instructions on such report, transmit
the same without delay to the Magistrate.
159. Power to hold investigation or preliminary inquiry: Such Magistrate, on receiving
such report may direct an investigation or, if he thinks fit at once proceed, or depute
any Magistrate subordinate to him to proceed, to hold a preliminary inquiry into, or
otherwise to dispose of, the case in manner provided in this Code.
160. Police-officer's power to require attendance of witnesses: Any police-officer
making an investigation under this Chapter may, by order in writing, require the
attendance before himself of any person, being within the limits of his own or any
adjoining station who, from, the information given or otherwise, appears to be acquainted
with the circumstances of the case; and such person shall attend as so required.
161. Examination of witnesses by police: (1) Any police-officer making an investigation
under this Chapter or any police-officer not" below such rank as the Provincial
Government may, by general or special order, prescribe in this behalf, acting on the
requisition of such officer may examine orally any person supposed to be acquainted with
the facts and circumstances of the case.
(2) Such person shall be bound to answer all- questions relating to such case put to him
by such officer, other than questions the answers to which would have a tendency to
expose him to a criminal charge or to a penalty or forfeiture.
(3) The police officer may reduce into writing any statement made to him in the course of
an examination under this section, and if he does so he Shall make a separate record
of the statement of each such person whose statement he records.
162. Statements to police not to be signed, use of such statements in evidence: (1)
No statement made by any person to a police-officer in the course of an investigation
under this Chapter shall if reduced into writing be signed by the person making it; nor
shall-any such statement or any record thereof whether in a police-diary or otherwise or
any part of such statement or record, be used for any purpose (save as hereinafter
provided) at any inquiry or trial in respect of any offence under investigation at the. time
when such statement was made:
Provided that, when any witness is called for the prosecution in such inquiry or trial whose
statement has been reduced into writing as aforesaid the Court shall on the request of the
accused, refer to such writing and direct that the accused be furnished with a copy thereof, in order that any part of such statement, if duly proved, may be used to contradict
such witness in the manner provided by Section 145 of the Evidence Act, 1872. When any
part of such statement is so used, any part thereof may also be used in the re-examination
of such witness, but for the purpose only of explaining any matter referred to in his crossexamination:
Provided further, that, if the Court is of opinion that any part of any such statement is not
relevant to the subject-matter of the Enquiry or trial or that its disclosure to the accused is
not essential in the interests of justice and is inexpedient in the public interests, it shall
record such opinion (but-not the reasons therefore) and shall exclude such part from the
copy of the statement furnished to the accused.
(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to any statement falling within the
provisions of Section 32, clause (1) of the Evidence Act, 1872 or to affect the provisions
of Section 27 of that Act.
163. No inducement to be offered: (1) No police officer or other person in authority shall
offer or make, or cause to be offered or made, any such inducement, threat or promise as
is mentioned in the Evidence Act, 1872, Section 24.
(2) But no police officer or other person shall prevent by any caution or otherwise, any
person from making in the course of any investigation: under this Chapter any statement,
which he may be disposed to make of his, own free will.
164. Power to record statements and confessions: (1) Any Magistrate of the First
Class and any Magistrate of the Second Class specially empowered in this behalf by the
Provincial Government may, if he is not a police officer, record any statement or
confession made to him in the course of an investigation under this Chapter or at any time
afterwards before the commencement of the inquiry or trial.
[(1-A) Any such statement may be recorded by such Magistrate in the presence of the
accused, and the accused given an opportunity of cross-examining the witness making
the statement],
(2) Such statements shall be recorded in such of the manners hereinafter prescribed for
recording evidence as is, in his opinion, best fitted for the circumstances of the case: Such
confessions shall be recorded and signed in the manner provided in Section 364, and
such statements or confessions shall then be forwarded to the Magistrate by whom the
case is to be inquired into or tried-
(3) A Magistrate shaft, before recording any such confessions explain to the person
making it that he is not bound to make a confession and that if he does so it may be
used as evidence against him and no Magistrate shall record any such confession unless,
upon questioning the person making it, he has reason to believe that it was made voluntarily; and when he records any confession, he shall make a memorandum at the
foot of such record to the following effect:--
"I have explained to (name) that he is not bound to make a confession and that, if he does
so, any confession he may make may be used as evidence against him and I believe that
this confession was voluntarily made. It was taken in my presence and hearing, and was
read over to the person making it and admitted by him to be correct, and it contains a full
and true account of the statement made by him-
(Signed) A.B.
Magistrate.
Explanation: It is not necessary that the Magistrate receiving and recording a confession
or statement should be a Magistrate having Jurisdiction in the case.
Sub-section (1-A) added by Law Reforms Ordinance, XII of 1972.
165. Search by police-officer: (1) whenever an officer incharge of a police-station or a
police-officer making an investigation has reasonable grounds for believing that anything
necessary for the purposes of an investigation into any offence which he is authorised to
investigate may be found in any place within the limits of the police-station of which he is
incharge, or to which he is attached, and that such thing cannot in his opinion be
otherwise obtained without undue delay, such officer may, after recording in writing the
grounds of his belief and specifying in such writing, so far as possible, the thing for which
search is to be made, search, or cause search to be made, for such thing in any place
within the limits of such station:
Provided that no such officer shall search, or cause search to be made, for anything which
is in the custody of a bank or banker as defined in the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1891
(XVIII of 1891), and relates, or might disclose any information which relates, to the bank
account of any person except, --
(a) for the purpose of investigating an offence under Sections 403. 406, 408 and 409 and
Sections 421 to 424 (both inclusive) and Sections 465 to 477-A (both inclusive) of the
Pakistan Penal Code with the prior permission in writing of a Sessions Judge: and
(b) in other cases, with the prior permission in writing of the High Court.
(2) A police-officer proceeding under sub-section (1) shall, if practicable, conduct the
search in person.
(3) If he is unable to conduct the search in person, and there is no other person competent
to make the search present at the time, he may, after recording in writing his reasons for
so doing require any officer subordinate to him to make the search, and he shall deliver to
such subordinate officer an order in writing specifying the place to be searched and, so far
as possible, the thing for which search is to be made; and such subordinate officer may
thereupon search for such thing in such place. (4) The provisions of this Code as to search warrants and the general provisions as to
searches contained in Section 102, Section 103 shall, so far may be, apply to a search
made under this section.
(5) Copies of any record made under sub-section (1) or sub-section (3) shall forthwith be
sent to the nearest Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence and the
owner or occupier, of the place searched shall on application be furnished with a copy of
the same by the Magistrate:
Provided; that he shall pay for the same unless the Magistrate for Some special reason
thinks fit to furnish it free of cost.
166. When officer incharge of police station may require another to issue search
warrant: (1) An officer incharge of a police-station or a police-officer not being below the
rank of sub-inspector making an investigation, may require an officer incharge of another
police-station, whether in the same or a different district, to cause a search to be made in
any place, in any case In which the former officer might cause such search to be made,
within the limits of his own station.
(2) Such officer, on being So required, shall proceed according to the provisions of
Section 165, and shall forward the thing found, if any. to the officer at whose request the
search was made,
(3) Whenever there is reason to believe that the delay occasioned by requiring an officer
incharge of another police station to cause a search to be made under sub-section (1)
might result in evidence of the commission of an offence being concealed or destroyed, it
shall be lawful for an officer incharge of a police-station or a police-officer making an
investigation under this chapter to search, or cause to be searched, any place in the limits
of another police station, in accordance with the provisions of Section 165, as if such
place were within the limits of his own station.
(4) Any officer conducting a search under sub-section (3) shall forthwith send notice of the
search to the officer incharge of the police station within the limits of which such place is
situate, and shall also send with such notice a copy of the list (if any) prepared under
Section 103, and shall also send to the nearest Magistrate empowered to take cognizance
of the offence, copies of the records referred to in Section 165, sub-sections (1) and (3).
(5) The owner or occupier of the place searcher shall, on application be furnished with a
copy of any record sent to the Magistrate under sub-section (4):
Provided that he shall pay for the, same unless the Magistrate for some special reasons
thinks fit to furnish it free of cost.
167. Procedure when investigation cannot be completed in twenty-four hours: (1)
Whenever any person is arrested and detained in custody, and it appears that the investigation cannot be completed within the period of twenty four hours fixed by Section
61, and there are grounds for believing that the accusation or information is well founded,
the officer incharge of the police-station or the police-officer making the investigation if he
is not below the rank of the sub-inspector, shall forthwith transmit to the nearest
Magistrate a copy of the entries in the diary hereinafter prescribed relating to the case,
and shall at the game time forward the accused to such Magistrate.
Explanation : [Omitted by the Ordinance, XXXVII of 2001, dt. 13-8-2001.]
(2) The Magistrate to whom an accused person is forwarded under, this section may,
whether he has or has not jurisdiction to try the case, from time to time, authorize the
detention of the accused in such custody as such Magistrate thinks fit, for a term not
exceeding fifteen days in the whole. If he has no jurisdiction to try the case or [send] it for
trial, and considers further detention unnecessary, he may order the accused to be
forwarded to a Magistrate having such jurisdiction;
Provided that no Magistrate of the Third Class, and no Magistrate of the Second Class not
specially empowered in this behalf by the Provincial Government shall authorise detention
in the custody of the police.
(3) A Magistrate authorizing under this section detention in the custody of the police shall
record his reasons for so doing.
[(4) The Magistrate, giving such order shall forward copy of his order, with his reasons for
making it, to the Sessions Judge].
[(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in Sections 60 and 61 or hereinbefore to the
contrary, where the accused forwarded under sub-section (2) is a female, the Magistrate
shall not except—in the cases involving QatI or dacoity supported by reasons to be
recorded in writing, authorise-the detention of the accused in police custody, and the
police officer making an investigation shall interrogate the accused referred to in subsection (1) in the prison in the presence of an officer of jail and a female police officer.
(6) The officer incharge of the prison shall make appropriate arrangements the admission
of the investigating police officer into the prison for the purpose of interrogating the
accused.
(7) If for the purpose of investigation, it is necessary that the accused referred to in subsection (1) be taken out of the prison, the officer incharge of the police station or the police
officer making investigation, not below the rank of sub-inspector, shall apply to the
Magistrate in that behalf and the Magistrate may, for the reasons to be recorded in writing,
permit taking of accused out of the prison in the company of a female police officer
appointed by the Magistrate :
Provided that the accused shall not be kept out of the prison while in the custody of the
police between sunset and sunrise]. Word subs. by Law Reforms Ordinance, XII of 1972.
Sub-sec. (4) subs. by Law Reforms Ordinance, XII of 1972.
Sub-sections (5) to (7) added by Code of Criminal Procedure (Second Amendment) Act. XX of 1994, 8.2,
168. Report of Investigation by subordinate police officer: When any subordinate
police officer has made any investigation under this Chapter, he shall report the result of
such investigation to the officer incharge of the police-station.
169. Release of accused when evidence deficient: If upon an investigation under this
Chapter, it appears to the officer incharge of the police station or to the police officer
making the investigation that there is no sufficient evidence or reasonable ground of
suspicion to justify the forwarding of the accused to a Magistrate, such officer shall if such
person is in custody, release him on his executing a bond, with or without sureties, as
such officer may direct, to appear, if and when so required, before a Magistrate
empowered to take cognisance of the offence on a police-report and to try the accused or
send him for trial.
170. Case to be sent to Magistrate when evidence is sufficient: (1) If, upon an
investigation under this Chapter, it appears to the officer incharge of the police-station that
there is sufficient evidence or reasonable ground as aforesaid such officer shall forward
the accused under custody to a Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence
upon a police-report and to try the accused or send him for trial, or if the offence is
bailable and the accused is able to give security, shall take shall take security from him for
his appearance before such Magistrate on a day fixed and for his attendance from day-today before such Magistrate until otherwise directed.
(2) When the officer Incharge of a police station forwards an accused person to a
Magistrate or take security for his appearance before such Magistrate under this section,
he shall send to such Magistrate any weapon or other article which it may, be necessary,
to produce before him and shall require the complainant,(if any) and so-many of the
persons who appear to such officer to be acquainted with the circumstances of the case
as he may think necessary, to execute a bond to appear before, the Magistrate as thereby
directed and prosecute or, give evidence (as the case may be) in the matter of the charge
against the accused.
(3) Omitted by item No. 65 (ii) of Punjab Notification No. SO(J-ff) 1-8/75 (P-V), dated
21.3.1996 for Punjab and by same Item No. of Islamabad Notification No. S.R.O. 255
(I)/96, dated 8-4-1996 for Islamabad only.]
(4) [Rep. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment Act II of 1926 Section 2]
(5) The officer in whose presence the bond is executed shall deliver a-copy thereof to one
of the persons who executed it, and shall then send to the Magistrate the original with his
report. 171. Complainants and witnesses not to be required to accompany police-officer:
No complainant or witness on his way to the Court of Magistrate shall be required to
accompany a police officer.
Complainants and witnesses not to be subjected to restraint: Or shall be subjected to
unnecessary restraint or inconvenience, or required to give any security for his
appearance other than his own bond.
Reseusant complainant witness may be forwarded in custody: .Provided that, if any
complainant or witness refuses to attend or to execute a bond as directed in Section
170, the officer |incharge of the police-station may forward him in custody to the
Magistrate who may detain him in custody until he executes such bond, or until the
hearing of the case is completed.
172. Diary of proceedings in investigation: (1) Every police-officer making an
investigation under this Chapter shall day by day enter his proceedings in the investigation
in-a diary setting forth the time at which the information reached him, the time at which he
began and closed his investigation, the place or places Visited by him, and a statement ©f
the circumstances ascertained through his investigation.
(2) Any Criminal Court may send for the police-diaries of a case under inquiry or trial in
such Court, and may use such diaries, not as evidence in the case, but to aid it in such
inquiry or trial. Neither the accused nor his agents shall be entitled to call for such diaries,
nor shaft he or they be entitled to see them merely because they are referred to by the
Court; but, if they are used by the police-officer who made them, to refresh his memory, or
if the Court uses them for the purpose of contradicting such police-officer, the provisions
of the Evidence Act, 1872, Section 161 or Section 145, as the case may be, shall apply.
173. Report of police officer: (1) Every investigation under this Chapter shall be
completed without unnecessary delay, and, as soon as it is completed, the officer
incharge of the police-station shall [through the Public Prosecutor]--
(a) forward to a Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence on a policereport, a report in the form prescribed by the Provincial Government, setting forth the
names of the parties, the nature of the information and the names of the persons who
appear to be acquainted with the circumstances of the case, and stating whether the
accused (if arrested) has been forwarded in custody or has been released on his bond,
and, if so, whether with or without sureties, and
(6) communicate, in such manner as may be prescribed by the Provincial Government,
the action taken by him to the person, if any, by whom the information relating to the
commission of the offence was first given :
[provided that, where investigation is not completed within a period of fourteen days from
the date of recording of the first information report under Section 154, the officer incharge
of the police station shall, within three days of the expiration of such period, forward to the Magistrate through the Public Prosecutor, an interim report in the form prescribed by the
Provincial Government stating therein the result of the investigation made until then and
the Court shall commence the trial on the basis of such interim report, unless, for reasons
to be recorded, the Court decides that the trial should not so commence],
(2) Where a superior officer of police has been appointed under Section 158, the report
shall, in any cases in which the Provincial Government by general or special order so
directs, be submitted through that officer, and he may, pending the orders of the
Magistrate, direct the officer incharge of the police-station to make further investigation.
(3) Whenever it appears from a report forwarded under this section that the accused has
been released on his bond, the Magistrate shall make such order for the discharge of such
bond or otherwise as he thinks fit.
(4) A copy of any report forwarded under this section shall, on application, be furnished to
the accused before the commencement of the inquiry or trial:
Provided that the same shall be paid for unless the Magistrate for some special reason
thinks fit to furnish it free of cost.
[(5) Where the officer incharge of a police station forwards a report under sub-section (1),
he shall along with the report produce the witnesses in the case, except the public
servants, and the Magistrate shall bind such witnesses for appearance before him or
some other Court on the date fixed for trial.]

Words added by Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, XXV of 1992, S.2(i).
Proviso added by ibid., S. 2 (ii), dated 12-12-1992.
Sub-section (5) added by Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, XXV of 1992.
174. Police to inquire to report in suicide, etc.: (1) The officer incharge of a police
station or some other police officer specially empowered by the Provincial Government in
that behalf, on receiving information that a person-
(a) has committed suicide, or
(b) has been killed by another, or by an animal, or by machinery, or by an accident, or
(c) has died under circumstances raising a reasonable suspicion that some other person
has committed an offence, . .
shall immediately give intimation thereof to the nearest Magistrate empowered to hold
(inquests and unless otherwise directed by any rule prescribed by the Provincial
Government, shall proceed to the place where the body, of such deceased person is, and
there, in the presence of two or more respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood, shall
make an investigation, and draw up a report of the apparent cause of death, describing
such wounds, fractures, bruises and other marks of injury as may be found oil the body.
and stating in what manner, or by what weapons- or instrument (if any), such marks
appear to have been inflicted. (2) The report shall be signed by such police officer and other persons, or by so many of
them as concur therein, and shall be forthwith forwarded to the [concerned] Magistrate.
(3) When there is any doubt regarding the cause of death or when for any other reason
the police-officer considers it expedient so to do, the shall, subject to such rules as the
Provincial Government may prescribe in this behalf, forward the body, with a view to its
being examined, to the nearest Civil Surgeon, or other qualified medical man appointed in
this behalf by the Provincial Government, if the state of the weather and the distance
admits of its being so forwarded without risk of such putrefaction on the road as would
render such examination useless.
(4) [Omitted by A.O., 1949, Sch.]
(5) [The Magistrates of the First Class are empowered to hold inquests.]
175. Power to summon persons: (1) A police-officer proceeding under Section 174 may,
by order in writing summon two or more persons a& aforesaid for the purpose of the said
investigation and any other person, who appears to be acquainted with the facts of the
case. Every person so summoned shall be abound to attend and to answer truly, all
questions other than Questions the answers to which would have a tendency to expose
him to a criminal charge, or to a penalty or forfeiture.
(2) If the facts do not disclose a cognizable offence to which Section 170 applies, such
persons shall not be required by the police officer to attend a Magistrate's Court.
176. Inquiry by Magistrate into cause of death: (1) When any person dies while in the
custody of the police, the nearest Magistrate empowered to hold inquests shall, and in
any other case mentioned in Section 174, clauses (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1), any
Magistrate so empowered may hold an inquiry into the cause of death either .instead of, or
in addition to, the investigation held by the police-officer, and if he does so, he shall have
all the powers in conducting it which he would have in holding:, an inquiry into an offence.
The Magistrate holding such an inquiry shall record the evidence taken by him in
connection therewith in any of the manners hereinafter prescribed according to the
circumstances of the case.
(2) Power to disinter corpses: 'Whenever such Magistrate considers it expedient to
make an examination of the dead body of any person who has been already interred, in
order to discover the cause of his death, the Magistrate may cause the body to be
disinterred and examined.