Section 167 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
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 57, and there are grounds for believing that the accusation or information is well-founded, the officer in charge […]
Section 166B – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Section 166A – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Letter of request to competent authority for investigation in a country or place outside India. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Code, if, in the course of an investigation into an offence, an application is made by the investigating officer or any officer superior in rank to the investigating officer that evidence may be available […]
Section 166 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
When officer in charge of police station may require another to issue search warrant (1) An officer in charge of a police station or a police officer not being below the rank of sub-inspector making an investigation may require an officer in charge of another police station, whether in the same or a different district, […]
Section 165 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Search by police officer (1) Whenever an officer in charge 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 […]
Section 164A – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Medical examination of the victim of rape (1) Where, during the stage when an offence of committing rape or attempt to commit rape is under investigation, it is proposed to get the person of the woman with whom rape is alleged or attempted to have been committed or attempted, examined by a medical expert, such […]
Section 164 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Recording of confessions and statements (1) Any Metropolitan Magistrate or Judicial Magistrate may, whether or not he has jurisdiction in the case, record any confession or statement made to him in the course of an investigation under this Chapter or under any other law for the time being in force, or at any time afterwards […]
Section 163 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
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 section 24 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872). (2) But no police officer or other person shall […]
Section 162 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Statements to police not to be signed – Use of 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 to writing, be signed by the person making it; nor shall any such statement or any record thereof, whether […]
Section 161 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
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 State 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 […]