Criminal Procedure Code 173 all matters necessary to enable an opinion to be formed as to the manner in which the deceased came by his death and as to whether his death resulted in any way from, or was accelerated by, any unlawful act or omission on the part of any other person. Duty of police officer to investigate death 329. (1) Every officer in charge of a police station on receiving information— (a) that a person has committed suicide; (b) that a person has been killed by another, or by an animal, or by machinery, or by an accident; (c) that a person has died under circumstances raising a reasonable suspicion that some other person has committed an offence; (d) that the body of a dead person has been found, and it is not known how he came by his death; or (e) that a person has died a sudden death, shall with the least practical delay transmit such information to the Officer in charge of the Police District. (2) On receipt of the information the Officer in charge of the Police District or some other police officer acting under his directions and being either the officer in charge of a police station or a police officer not below the rank of sergeant shall immediately proceed to the place where the body of the deceased person is and there shall make an investigation and draw up report of the apparent cause of death, describing the wounds, fractures, bruises and other marks of injury as may be found on the body, and such marks, objects and circumstances as, in his opinion, may relate to the cause of death or the person, if any, who caused the death, and stating in what manner or by what weapon or instrument, if any, the marks appear to have been inflicted.