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
155. Information in
non-cognizable cases. (1) 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 informant to the [1][Magistrate.]
(2) Investigation into non-cognizable cases. No
police-officer shall investigate a non-cognizable case without the order of a
Magistrate of the First or Second Class having power to try such case [2][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-in-charge of a police station, may exercise in a cognizable case.