THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1898
(V OF 1898)
[22nd March, 1898]
An Act to consolidate and amend the law
relating to the Criminal Procedure
PART V
INFORMATION TO THE POLICE AND THEIR POWERS
TO INVESTIGATE
CHAPTER XIV
154. Information in cognizable cases. Every information relating
to the commission of a cognizable offence if given orally to an
officer-in-charge of a police station, shall be reduced to writing by him or
under his direction and be 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 [1][:]
[2][Provided that if
the information is given by the woman against whom an offence under Section
336-B, Section 354, Section 354-A, Section 376 or Section 509 of the Pakistan
Penal Code, 1860, (Act XLV of 1860) is alleged to have been committed or
attempted, then such information shall be recorded by an investigating officer
in presence of a female police officer or a female family member or any other
person with consent of the complainant, as the case may be:
Provided further that if the information,
given by the woman against whom an offence under Section 336-B, Section 354,
Section 354-A, Section 376 or Section 509 of the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (Act
XLV of 1860) is alleged to have been committed or attempted, is distressed such
information shall be recorded by an investigating officer at residence of the
complainant or at a convenient place of the complainant’s choice in presence of
a police officer or family member or any other person with consent of the
complainant, as the case may be.]