Court shall commence the trial on the basis of such interim report, unless, for reasons to be recorded, the
Court decides that the trial should not so commence.]
(2) Where a superior officer of police has been appointed under section 158, the report shall, in any
cases in which the 1[Provincial Government] by general or special order so directs, be submitted through
that officer, and he may, pending the orders of the Magistrate, direct the officer in charge of the police
station to make further investigation.
(3) Whenever it appears from a report forwarded under this section that the accused has been released
on his bond, the Magistrate shall make such order for the discharge of such bond or otherwise as he thinks
fit.
2[(4) A copy of any report forwarded under this section shall, on application, be furnished to the
accused before the commencement of the inquiry or trial:
Provided that the same shall be paid for unless the Magistrate for some special reason thinks fit to
furnish it free of cost.]
3[(5) Where the officer in charge of a policestation forwards a report under subsection (1), he shall
along with the report produce the witnesses in the case, except the public servants, and the Magistrate shall
bind such witnesses for appearance before him or some other Court on the date fixed for trial.]
174. Police to inquire and report on suicide, etc.__ (1) The officer in charge of a policestation or
some other policeofficer specially empowered by the 1[Provincial Government] in that behalf, on receiving
information that a person__
(a) has committed suicide, or
(b) has been killed by another, or by an animal, or by machinery, or by an accident, or
(c) has died under circumstances raising a reasonable suspicion that some other person has
committed an offence,
shall immediately give intimation thereof to the nearest Magistrate empowered to hold inquests, and,
unless otherwise directed by any rule prescribed by the 1[Provincial Government],4[***] shall proceed to
the place where the body of such deceased person is, and there, in the presence of two or more respectable
inhabitants of the neighbourhood, shall make an investigation, and draw up a report of the apparent cause of
death, describing such wounds, fractures, bruises and other marks of injury as may be found on the body
and stating in what manner, or by what weapon or instrument (if any), such marks appear to have been
inflicted.
(2) The report shall be signed by such policeofficer and other persons, or by so many of them as concur
therein, and shall be forthwith forwarded to the 4[concerned] Magistrate.
1 Subs. by A.O., 1937, for “L.G”.
2 Subsection (4) ins. by the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amdt.) Act, 1923 (18 of 1923), s. 40.
3 Added by Act XXV of 1992, S. 2.
4 Subs. and omitted. by Ord. 37 of 2001, S. 51(w.e.f 14082001).
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