Criminal Procedure Code
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(6) The Public Prosecutor shall cause to be furnished to the
informant, or direct the Officer in charge of the Police District
to furnish to the informant, a status report containing such
information as may be directed by the Public Prosecutor.
Procedure in non-seizable cases
108. (1) When the information aforesaid relates to the commission
of a non-seizable offence that officer shall refer the informant to
a Magistrate.
(2) No police officer shall in a non-seizable case exercise any
of the special powers in relation to police investigations given
by this Chapter without the order of the Public Prosecutor.
(3) Any police officer not below the rank of Sergeant or any
officer in charge of a police station receiving such order may
exercise the same powers in respect of the investigation, except
the power to arrest without warrant, as that police officer may
exercise without an order in a seizable case.
Admission of certified copy of information as evidence
108a. In any proceeding under this Code a copy of an entry
relating to an information reduced to writing under the provisions
of section 107, and purporting to be certified to be a true copy
by the Officer in charge of the Police District in which the police
station where the information given is situated, shall be admitted
as evidence of the contents of the original and of the time, place
and manner in which the information was so recorded.
Investigation in seizable cases
109. (1) Any police officer not below the rank of Sergeant or
any officer in charge of a police station may without the order
of the Public Prosecutor exercise all or any of the special powers
in relation to police investigations given by this Chapter in any
seizable case.
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