Where prosecution and defence are both inadequate, CD will enable the court to rise up to the occasion and discover for itself the material facts and circumstances from the case diary, which can be brought to light through the...
Police Investigation
Non-cognizable information: O/C of a Police station has no power to investigate a non–
Cognizable information, he can record it in G.D U/S 155 CrPC or 44 Police Act and ask the informant to seek for an order from a...
The training of the dog starts at the age of six to nine months. Dogs and Handlers are imparted training in disciplines as specified and demanded by their respective departments. The training of the Dog and the Handler is...
The charge-sheet shall be sent by the quickest means to the Court officer for submission to the Magistrate. When a prima facie case is made out in a case in which articles have, been sent for chemical analysis, the...
If an FIR once started, shall not be cancelled by the police, nor by the Magistrate. Recording of FIR means starting of an investigation of a cognizable case which can only be concluded in any of the following ways: By...
1. Recording of information in General Diary: Officer-in-charge of a police station can record any information in G.D U/S 44 Police Act 1861. 44. Police officers to keep diary – It shall be the duty of every officer in charge...
It is well settled that a First Information Report is not an encyclopedia, which must disclose all facts and details relating to the offence reported. An informant may lodge a report about the commission of an offence though he...
WEST BENGAL AMENDMENT In section 167- (1) For sub-sec. (5) of Section 167 following sub-section shall substituted- “(5) If, in respect of – (i) any case triable by a Magistrate as a summons case, the investigation is not concluded...
Nimmagadda Prasad Vs. Central Bureau of Investigation, wherein with respect to the economic offences Supreme Court has observed as follows: Economic offences constitute a class apart and need to be visited with a different approach in the matter of...
It further observed that when defective investigation comes to light during course of trial, it may be cured by further investigation, if circumstances so permitted.
Power to order fresh, de-novo or reinvestigation being vested with the Constitutional Courts

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The power to order fresh, de-novo or re- investigation being vested with the Constitutional Courts, the commencement of a trial and examination of some witnesses cannot be an absolute impediment for exercising the said constitutional power which is meant...
When the officer in charge of a police station or some other police officer specially empowered by the State Government in that behalf receives information that a person has committed suicide, or has been killed by another or by...
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