(h)
"investigation" includes all the proceedings under this
Code for the collection of evidence conducted by a police
officer or by any person (other than a Magistrate) who is
authorised by a Magistrate in this behalf;
(i)
"judicial proceeding" includes any proceeding in the
course of which evidence is or may be legally taken on oath ;
(j)
"local jurisdiction", in relation to a Court
or
Magistrate, means the local area within which the Court or
Magistrate may exercise all or any of its or his powers under
this Code 1*[and such local area may comprise the whole of the
State, or any part of the State, as the State Government may,
by notification, specify];
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(k)
"metropolitan area" means the area declared, or deemed
to be declared, under section 8, to be a metropolitan area ;
(l)
"non-cognizable offence" means an offence for
and "non- cognizable case" means a case in which, a
officer has no authority to arrest without warrant;
(m)
"notification"
Official Gazette ;
means a notification published
which,
police
in
(n)
"offence" means any act or omission made punishable
any law for the time being in force and includes any act
respect of which a complaint may be made under section 20
the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871 ( 1 of 1871);
the
by
in
of
(o)
"officer in charge of a police station" includes, when
the
officer in charge of the police station is absent from
the station house or unable from illness or other cause to
perform his duties, the police officer present at the
station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is
above the rank of constable or, when the State Government so
directs, any other police officer so present ;
(p)
"place"
vessel;
includes a house, building, tent, vehicle
and
(q)
"pleader", when used with reference to any proceeding
in any Court, means a person authorised by or under any law
for the time being in force, to practise in such Court, and
includes any other person appointed with the permission of